NIH’s plan to reduce indirect funds faced immense backlash from researchers. A federal judge ruled to extend the halt to cuts ...

Burns initially reached out to Larry Brilliant, an epidemiologist and chief executive officer of the Pandefense Advisory, ...

In this webinar, Kevin J. Tracey and Lawrence Steinman will discuss how researchers study the immunology of the brain and its ...

Three developmental neuroscientists presented their research on adolescent brain development and the risk factors for ...

The paper E.N. Judd et al., “Positive natural selection in primate genes of the type I interferon response,” BMC Ecol Evol, 21:65, 2021. In humans, one of the host cell’s first lines of defense ...

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A gene variant identified in a family and studied in a fruit fly model may offer protection against a rare X-linked seizure ...

An NIH policy to reduce funding for indirect costs to 15 percent, although temporarily blocked nationwide, sparks widespread ...

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Researchers identified an enzyme that helps Plasmodium-infected red blood cells adhere to the placenta, providing molecular ...