Microbiome science has greatly expanded our understanding of microbial life and its roles in the environment and human health. Yet microbiome science …

The American Academy of Microbiology elected 63 new fellows to the Class of 2026.

For at least a century, major scientific research initiatives have reliably occurred in the United States, usually in response to geopolitical competition. This helped establish the country’s status a...

Commensal Candida albicans enhances the virulence and dissemination of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium.

Non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars primarily cause gastrointestinal infections but can also lead to bacteremia through mechanisms that are not completely elucidated. Here we show that the outer membran...

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Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

‘Fast Facts: The Gut Microbiome’, though pithy and concise, is amazingly comprehensive and takes the reader through all major aspects of the human gut micr

The University of California has imposed a system-wide hiring freeze and made additional cuts, its president said on Wednesday, as part of efforts to try to mitigate the impact of sharp cuts in federal funding.

Thousands of protesters gathered in Washington for Stand Up for Science, a rally in response to President Trump’s federal-funding and job cuts.

Since January 20, too many of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Republicans' actions have only served to break our government and hurt the American people. Many have written and called my office concerned, ...

Nature Protocols - In this reverse metabolomics protocol, a tandem mass spectrometry spectrum is used as a search term to probe public metabolomic data. Analysis of the metadata connected with...

The U.S. life science research mission is critical not only to human health and understanding the natural world but also to agriculture and food production, technological innovations, socioeconomic progress, and our national defense and leadership worldwide. A 2025 Research!America survey reveals that 92% of Americans want government to actively work to promote medical progress, in part by funding infectious and chronic disease research. Why? Because biomedical research saves lives, prevents suffering, and increases quality of life for not only Americans but for people throughout the world. While less well appreciated, science also drives enormous economic growth. Indeed, historically there has been widespread bipartisan support for biomedical funding by the federal government. Below we discuss the U.S. scientific research enterprise and provide evidence and arguments we hope the ASM community can use to advocate for science.

The Trump administration has for weeks been blocking the U.S. National Institutes of Health process for issuing new research grants for everything from Lyme disease to lung and heart disease, according to researchers, a departing NIH official and documents.

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

As UW medical scientists, we urge Washingtonians to defend the NIH’s life-saving research funding.

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.