Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

I’m a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry at WashU. My children attend Kirkwood schools, and I have participated in many career days and science lessons teaching children about the brain

In a small trial, nearly half of pancreatic cancer patients who received an mRNA vaccine for the disease had no relapse three years later.

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a method to peer into biomolecular condensates, which could lead to a better understanding of condensate functions and their impairment...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer talks about burnout from covering the pandemic and how bird-watching gave him a new sense of hope.

Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Making Sense of It All is an outlet for my work at Liminal, which focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated world. I built Liminal as an antidote t...

White House dismissals and rationale challenged by dismissed scientists and lawsuits

A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.

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Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...

The 80-year-old partnership between the federal government and research institutions has made the U.S. the leader in scientific innovation. But now a proposed funding cut threatens the arrangement.

NIH directly supports the economy through investments in research institutions and job formation.

Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review