Applications for a prestigious NIH grant that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are not being funded.

Pancreatic cancer patients may benefit from future precision treatments as a new study shows how some tumors may potentially be more susceptible to macrophage-based therapies, and clues behind why ...

These go to the universities and research institutes, covering the costs of providing and maintaining the lab space, heat and ...

As the Trump administration moves to disband USAID, the scope of university research it has historically supported needs to ...

A new, comprehensive map of all the genes essential for blood infections in Plasmodium knowlesi (P. knowlesi), a parasite ...

The zona incerta (ZI) is a deep brain region originally described by Auguste Forel as an “immensely confusing area about which nothing can be said.” Despite the elusive nature of this structure, ...

The abrupt pause in hiring, public communications, meetings and training workshops for some scientists at the Maryland-based National Institutes of Health since President Donald Trump took office is a ...

Without the NIH meetings known as study sections, the agency can’t review grants and thus can’t make research awards. Those funds are critically important in helping researchers study cancer ...

The NIH is the world’s largest public financier of biomedical research, with more than 80% of its $48 billion budget underwriting outside research in universities, medical centers and other ...

It’s no secret that Trump’s allies and lieutenants have promised radical changes throughout HHS, with special attention to agencies like the CDC and the NIH, which they have accused of ...

While the National Institutes of Health employs 20,000-plus workers and spans 27 institutes and centers, the agency’s main job is to fund researchers working outside its walls. But an ...