Scientists work in a laboratory at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which could lose research projects to the US Department of Defense.Credit: NIAID Update: After this story was published, the US Department of Defense responded to Nature’s request for comment with a statement confirming that the department has signed a research agreement
The US National Institutes of Health has put forward a plan to change how it ranks research proposals and decides which ones to fund.Credit: Timon Schneider/Alamy The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed overhauling how it decides which research projects to fund, and how it reports the outcome of those deliberations. For the
Research about how pollution regulations affect people’s health is relevant to policymakers, but the US National Institutes of Health is shifting away from funding such work.Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has begun turning away research grant applications for which the “primary function” is informing policymakers and legislators, according to internal
Two scientists at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, have been charged in connection with biological material they brought into the United States from abroad.Credit: PBH/Alamy Images Two virologists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) face charges related to the alleged smuggling of non-infectious monkeypox virus (MPXV) and other biological samples into the