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The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.

La Jolla, California—April 29, 2026—The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) announced that J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the Institute’s founder, board...

Nancy Cox, a CDC veteran who for decades was a global leader in influenza research, has died at 77.

NIH funding data reveals dramatic shifts in award rates last year even for highly ranked proposals – yet another warning sign for the state of American science.

Track federal science spending at NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and USDA. Monitors obligation rates and award activity against historical averages using official budget data.

The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash NIH support for research indirect costs

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) derive from H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs). Although insertion of a furin-cleavable multibasic cleavage site (MBCS) in the...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) derive from H5 and H7 low pathogenic avian influenza viruses (LPAIVs). Although insertion of a furin-cleavable multibasic cleavage site (MBCS) in the...

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Growing opposition to vaccines in the U.S., driven by recent government policy changes, makes it difficult to see a return on investment in vaccine development, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said this w...

Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

The NIH has issued a Notice (NOT-OD-26-012) which expands upon the prior warning (NOT-OD-26-005) about extending the current submission deadlines. It seems to be quite comprehensive. All grant appl…

A tweet from someone apparently positioned to know claimed the damage totals from the government shutdown amounted to 379 study sections postponed, within which 24,380 NIH grant applications were s…

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...