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NIH launches a redesigned website on Monday that sorts its information into eight topic hubs, grants among them, instead of by its 27 institutes. Old sites stay up until redirects are in place, so grant seekers will meet the harder test later, as those sites close.
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The order was never published, so the record is a sequence: Vought pushed it at a Friday meeting, the Senate Appropriations chair wrote against it on Tuesday, and by Wednesday one person familiar with the decision called it dead.
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The FDA will accept methods other than animal testing for drug and biologic safety determinations when it judges them appropriate, and the agency decides for itself what appropriate means.
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Phillip Alberti told a National Academies roundtable that support for health equity moved with the question's wording. He quoted the figure for one subgroup answering one version. The size of the movement stays unquantified.
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Six years and thousands of studies have produced leads worth testing, but the researchers doing the work say the missing piece is a reliable disease marker, which is exactly what a trial needs to measure anything.
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A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
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The 26 August announcement listed the Senate, the Federal Reserve and NASA among a Chinese group's victims. By 28 August they were targets, and any team that opened an incident on day one was hunting a claim the affidavit did not contain.
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MassBio's annual snapshot pairs a recovering VC, IPO and M&A market with a 39% fall in seed capital, a 6% drop in NIH awards and 3,605 lost jobs.
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Johns Hopkins and NIH researchers report faster, cleaner translation from an alternative mRNA modification than from the chemistry used in COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Dose economics is the open question.
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Columbia researchers report a multi-organ chip in which breast cancer cells in vascular flow colonise engineered bone and lung differently, matching known organ tropism.
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A 2017 talk revealed the Human Cell Atlas planned only adult tissue. Pediatric gene expression differs enough that drugs adults tolerate well can kill children.
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A Request for Information posted on a Friday evening would replace numerical impact scores with three broad bands. Comments close October 13.
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