Over the last several months, a deep sense of unease has settled over laboratories across the United States. Researchers at every stage — from graduate students to senior faculty — have been forced to ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee has voted for a $400 million increase in the NIH budget. Pictured here are committee Vice Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Sen. Mitch ...

A budget proposal for the US Department of Health and Human Services details extensive cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health, part of an effort to consolidate the work of its 27 ...

In May 2025, the White House proposed reducing the budget of the National Institutes of Health by roughly 40% – from about US$48 billion to $27 billion. Such a move would return NIH funding to levels ...

The Senate Appropriations Committee rejected the Trump administration’s massive proposed funding cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), advancing a measure that would increase the agency’s ...

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) sits in front of a graph that shows how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be funding a lto fewer grants this year and next during her questioning of NIH ...

An “alternative history” has revealed the potential impacts a smaller National Institutes of Health (NIH) would have had on past drug development—and the results paint a troubling picture. If the NIH ...

Buck is the executive director of the Good Science Project. The National Institutes of Health commands nearly $50 billion annually — more than the gross domestic product of many nations — and its ...

In 2021 I visited the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla for the first time. I watched in awe as several transparent jellyfish floated around in their tank. I pressed the button next to the tank. The light in ...

As a hematologist and medical oncologist, I am deeply concerned about the administration’s proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the impact on the health of my patients and the people ...