The revision allows more time on previous extensions due to COVID-19 and other life events such as childbirth that disproportionately impact early-career women in science.  

Although many of the hikes are less than what the Biden administration had requested, the draft legislation calls for a boost in spending for agencies like NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy.

After resigning from the University of New England last year, Geoffrey Bove continues to study the effects of massage on rats in a facility he set up in his house.

A new ruling removes the requirement that grants and proposals using the material receive approval from an ethical review board, reverting to the process in place before 2019.

From immigration reform to climate change amelioration, researchers and science policy advocates share their hopes for 2021 and beyond.

The world was rocked by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, but researchers rose to all manner of challenges.

The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, has attracted widespread derision from researchers.

The members of a new advisory board to the NIH met for the first time and will weigh in on federal funding for grants that rely on donated tissue from abortions.

The abrupt termination comes after the research drew President Trump’s attention for its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

With mounting feelings of isolation, research projects derailed, and financial futures cast into doubt, grad students are anxious in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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.

A new analysis finds that black scientists tend to propose projects that have lower rates of funding from the National Institutes of Health than other fields.

esearchers who failed to disclose affiliations and funding sources from other countries are under investigation, and some universities are letting them go discreetely and refunding grant money to the agency.

This marks the second known instance in which an institution has acted on NIH’s concern about foreign influence over US-based researchers.

The Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence were established in 2005 through several phases of funding, which are reported to end next year.

The center had received letters from NIH about researchers’ violations of granting agency policies and intellectual property theft in 2018.

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.

Overall, men received more money on average, but R01s were an exception.

Alzheimer’s disease will receive $2.3 billion, the biggest chunk of change devoted to one of the NIH’s various interests.