RFK Jr.‘s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
Last week, Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Trump administration…
Report: US scientists lost $3 billion in NIH grants since Trump took office
Since Trump took office on January 20, research funding from the National Institutes of Health…
“This will be a painful period”: RFK Jr. slashes 24% of US health dept.
Health Secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is slashing a total of 20,000…
Report: mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr’s crosshairs; funding in question
Ars Technica has reached out to the NIH and HHS for comment and will update…
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UMass disbands its entering biomed graduate class over Trump funding chaos
Many schools are now bracing for steep declines in support. At Duke University, administrators have…
Scientific breakthroughs are hard without money for research infrastructure
What are indirect costs? Indirect costs, also known as facilities and administration costs, or overhead,…
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22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold
Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical…
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National Institutes of Health radically cuts support to universities
Grants paid by the federal government have two components. One covers the direct costs of…
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Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
Lest any of these worries seem extreme, we'll note that the new administration has labeled…