The president’s request for next year’s federal budget includes a 7 percent drop in funding for the National Institutes of Health and reductions for other science agencies.

An amendment to the 2020 funding bill would prohibit the Trump administration from convening ethics advisory boards to review funding proposals involving the tissues.

Blocked resources and the suspension of research scholarships threaten the future of Brazilian science, academics say.

The draft budget includes deep cuts for science funding, hacking more than $5.5 billion from the NIH’s allotment, but historically Congress has not accepted the White House’s proposals.

The bill for fiscal year 2019 increases allocations for NSF, FDA, and others above 2018 levels.

The consequences of the partial government closure could be long lasting.

As the second full week of lapsed funding comes to a close, some 800,000 federal employees are stuck at home, including some biologists.

The ongoing stalemate over the federal budget has forced one-quarter of the US government to begin a second week of closure.

Money from the NIH’s budget, among others, will be used to care for kids in federal custody.