Tag: Research funding
Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US...
Chris Impey, University of Arizona
America has already lost its global competitive edge in science, and funding cuts proposed...
Medical research depends on government money – even a day’s delay...
Aliasger K. Salem, University of Iowa
In the early days of the second Trump administration, a directive to pause...
CRISPR and other new technologies open doors for drug development, but...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
Prescription drugs and vaccines revolutionized health care, dramatically decreasing death from disease and...
First gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease successfully given to two children
Miguel Sena-Esteves, UMass Chan Medical School
Two babies have received the first-ever gene therapy for Tay-Sachs disease after over...
The next pandemic is already happening – targeted disease surveillance can...
Maureen Miller, Columbia University
As more and more people around the world are getting vaccinated, one can almost hear...
Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public...
Jonathan H. Marks, Pennsylvania State University
“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
As a scholar of...
Federal funding for higher ed comes with strings attached, but is...
Jason Alix Coupet, North Carolina State University
When nonprofit colleges and universities get federal funding for research and to support students, do government regulations make...
Teaching the public more science likely won’t boost support for funding,...
Matthew Motta, University of Pennsylvania
After 19 months without a director, the Trump administration recently tapped meteorologist Kelvin Droegemeier to lead the the White House’s...
EXPLORING NATURE
Don’t just plant trees, plant forests to restore biodiversity for the future
John Parker, Smithsonian Institution and Justin Nowakowski, Smithsonian Institution
Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1...
