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Staff members at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) seem to have done the impossible. Despite US President Donald Trump’s administration laying off thousands of the agency’s workers, delaying ...

A senior leader at the National Institutes of Health wrote an impassioned email to staff on the last Friday in August, lauding them for pulling off a “near-miracle.” The round-the clock work of ...

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After the Supreme Court ruled that a federal judge didn’t have jurisdiction to restore hundreds of grants from the National Institutes of Health, the judge apologized in a Tuesday pre-trial conference ...

The director of the US National Institutes of Health outlined on Friday a “unified strategy” to align the agency’s priorities and funding, a move he said was meant to offer clarification following ...

Semiconductor stocks have had a pretty rough week. And the way the charts are set up, the sector that was at the center of the AI-led boom in top technology stocks could very well end up having a ...