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News Articles: research

Jessica Chaikof was born with Usher 1F syndrome, which results in congenital deafness and eventual blindness.

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She hoped key research could help save her eyesight. Then the Trump funding cuts came

Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won't be ready in time.

June 24, 2025
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  • Craig LeMoult
Hundreds of NIH scientists protested cuts to the research agency in a declaration addressed to NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya.

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  • Science

NIH scientists call on director to protect biomedical research

In a public letter, hundreds of scientists expressed their dissent to the Trump administration's policies affecting the National Institutes of Health and called on its director to support the agency.

June 09, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
A large splash forms after a diver executes a Manu jump in the Georgia Tech pool. A recent study used principles of a maneuver traced to the Maori people of New Zealand.

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Research from Georgia Tech will help you make a big splash at the pool this summer

The study looked into a cultural jump from the indigenous people of New Zealand.

May 26, 2025
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  • Amanda Andrews
In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo, a "For Rent" sign is posted in Sacramento, Calif.

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Metro Atlanta has highest rate of corporate home ownership, says Georgia State researcher

U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff gave updates on an investigation into corporate home ownership rates across Georgia — a practice experts say has made it harder for individuals to buy affordable housing.

May 14, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
Gain-of-function research became especially controversial and politically polarized during the COVID-19 pandemic. One theory states the SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled out of a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, China.

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  • Research News

Trump restricts funding for 'gain-of-function' research — calling it dangerous

President Trump issued an executive order Monday banning federal funding for any research abroad that involves a field of scientific study known as "gain-of-function" research. Here's what it means.

May 06, 2025
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  • Rob Stein
Adelaide Tovar, a postdoctoral geneticist at the University of Michigan, prepares cell samples in a science laboratory on campus. Tovar is one of about 200 young scientists who will lose research funding because the Trump administration abruptly ended the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program. (Mike Hawkins)

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  • Health

As a diversity grant dies, young scientists fear it will haunt their careers

The Trump administration defunded the National Institute of Health's MOSAIC grant program, which launched the careers of scientists from diverse backgrounds.

April 28, 2025
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  • Brett Kelman
Georgia State University's School of Public Health hosted it's third Public Health Research Day on April 17, 2025.

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  • Health

Research at Georgia universities has already taken a hit. What could be lost?

Institutions across the spectrum for research expenditures are scaling back and reassessing to prepare for cuts by the federal government.

April 28, 2025
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  • Sofi Gratas
Students, faculty and members of the Harvard University community rally, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass.

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Harvard sues Trump administration to stop a freeze of more than $2 billion in grants

Harvard University announced Monday that it has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration's demands to limit activism on campus.

April 22, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
People walk past the faculty of economy of the Aix-Marseille University in Marseille on Oct. 4, 2023.

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Countries boost recruitment of American scientists amid cuts to scientific funding

American scientists have long worked abroad, but recruitment efforts are increasing due to cuts by the Trump administration.

March 29, 2025
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  • Chandelis Duster
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
Washington D.C., USA - February 29, 2020: Entrance of The National Science Foundation (NSF) in Washington D.C., USA. NSF is a United States government agency.

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  • Science

National Science Foundation says it will unfreeze grant money after court order

While NSF is still reviewing how its grants comply with Trump executive orders, it says it will continue to paying existing grants

February 03, 2025
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  • Jonathan Lambert
Webpages at the CDC and other health agencies went down on Friday.

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  • Health

Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.


January 31, 2025
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  • Will Stone and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
The historic main building of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

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  • Health

National Institutes of Health cancel scientific meetings after Trump directives

An email obtained by NPR says NIH employees are subject to a travel freeze and offers of employment are being rescinded. Scientists worry about disruptions to critical research.

January 23, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, La., on July 6, 2022. Abortion clinics in Louisiana have halted procedures after an appeals court ruled on Friday, July 26, 2022, that the state’s strict ban on abortion must be reinstated as an ongoing legal challenge plays out.

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  • Health Care

Data shows minimal changes to OB-GYN workforce following abortion bans, but that could change

Across the country there is evidence that abortion restrictions have made it harder on reproductive health care workers. But understanding how the workforce has changed overall could take years.

December 24, 2024
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  • Sofi Gratas
A monarch butterfly

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More monarch butterflies are dying on their migration to Mexico. It's unclear why

Each year, Georgians see monarch butterflies as they make their way south to Mexico for the winter. But more and more butterflies aren't surviving the trip.

October 28, 2024
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  • Chase McGee
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