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An awning with the Department of Veterans Affairs' seal marks the entrance to the department's headquarters a block from the White House on March 6, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Politics

VA research brought CT scans and pacemakers into the world. Now it's at risk of cuts

Researchers at the Department of Veterans Affairs warn that crucial medical research is in jeopardy unless the Trump administration reverses course on cuts.

April 30, 2025
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  • Quil Lawrence
People protested funding cuts to research institutions at the University of Chicago last week.

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  • Health

NIH partially lifts freeze on funding process for medical research

Thousands of grant applications had been stalled when the Trump administration blocked the National Institutes of Health from posting notices to the Federal Register.

February 26, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
A person breathes inside the Gesundheit II, a machine that allows scientists to study the behavior of pathogens when they're exhaled. Research like this is at risk amid the Trump administration's proposed funding cuts.

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  • Health

Medical research labs brace for possible funding cuts that could disrupt their work

Researchers say the Trump administration's plan to slash payments for indirect costs will hamper new medical science. One example? A lab studying respiratory viruses faces losing half its staff.

February 24, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Funding is stalled for National Institutes of Health research grants.

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  • Health

NIH funding freeze stalls applications on $1.5 billion in medical research funds

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

February 22, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
The diamond ring effect as well as Bailey's Beads are seen as the moon eclipses the sun on April 8, 2024, in Fort Worth, Texas.

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  • Science

Sen. Ted Cruz's list of 'woke' science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, says the National Science Foundation has given money to thousands of "woke DEI" studies. Researchers say that's misrepresenting science and disparaging important research.

February 13, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
Lung tissue samples that will be used in research are prepared at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio on Sept. 5, 2024.

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  • Education

What National Institutes of Health funding cuts could mean for U.S. universities

What do National Institutes of Health funding cuts mean for universities? We ask Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor.

February 12, 2025
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  • Taylor Haney
A laboratory studying sickle cell disease at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Laboratory, at the National Institutes of Health on Feb. 8, 2024, in Bethesda, Md.

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  • Health

NIH announces new funding policy that rattles medical researchers

The National Institutes of Health has dramatically changed its grant-making terms by limiting how much it will disburse for costs such as equipment and administration.

February 09, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Jason Mazzola walks to work at The Residence at Natick South, an LCB Senior Living community in Natick, MA. August 22, 2024.<br>

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Fragile X held him back. An experimental drug is helping him break free

For 22 years, Jason Mazzola’s life was defined by a genetic condition that can cause autism and intellectual disability. Then he started taking an experimental drug.

September 24, 2024
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  • Jon Hamilton
Medical Minute

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  • News

Medical Minute: Exosome Labeling

This week’s Medical Minute discusses a new technique scientists have developed to label the biological couriers that transport molecules between cells called “exosomes”

September 30, 2022
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  • GPB News Staff
Human fetal tissue (stock photo)

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  • Science

Here's What You Should Know About Biden's New Rules For Fetal Tissue Research

Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra is reversing restrictions on the use of fetal tissue in medical research implemented under former President Trump.

April 16, 2021
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  • Sarah McCammon

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