Congress Is Rejecting Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the ...

How the NIH became the backbone of American medical research and a major driver of innovation and economic growth

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job. It turned out to be the start of a lifelong ...
Time

Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great

Exterior view of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. While the Trump Administration's sharp increases in tariffs have received much of the political and economic attention in our ...
The Conversation

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – mRNA research exemplifies the unpredictable value of basic scientific research

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...
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Former NASA administrator discusses the catastrophic impact to basic science in Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”

The passage of President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” on July 4, 2025 was the death knell for basic scientific research in the United States. As part of the largest redistribution of ...
Nature

Shaping the future of medical science - a multidisciplinary paradigm

In the heart of Beijing, the Chinese Institutes for Medical Research (CIMR), a new research centre, aims to be a hub of innovation dedicated to advancing basic and translational medical research. With ...