Q&A: Nobel Prize-winning researcher and BU grad discusses vaccine development, vaccine hesitancy, and preparing for another pandemic
Weissman was jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Katalin Karikó for discoveries which made COVID-19 ...
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NIH launches trial of Lassa fever vaccine
The NIH announced the beginning of a phase 1 first-in-human trial of a vaccine for Lassa fever, a potentially fatal viral hemorrhagic disease for which there is no approved vaccine or treatment.
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NIH-sponsored trial of Lassa vaccine opens
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial of a candidate vaccine to prevent Lassa fever has begun ...
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NIH cuts funding for vaccine-hesitancy research. mRNA research may be next
The National Institutes of Health is terminating dozens of studies examining why people are hesitant about vaccines and how ...
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GTA publisher sues "lawless enterprise" allegedly selling modified accounts and currency obtained through hacking
More specifically, Take-Two claims PlayerAuctions contains "thousands of listings for unauthorised, infringing GTA 5 content – including heavily modified player accounts, in-game assets ...
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is canceling funding for research into vaccine hesitancy.
“It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine ...
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How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Bruising cuts by the administration of US President Donald Trump to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) have sparked fears about the future of the agency — by far the world’s biggest ...
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Former NIH director Francis Collins, once beloved in Washington, now worries for his safety there
The incident was witnessed by a reporter from STAT, and the man afterward identified himself only as “Jeff” and said he was there to protest Collins’ oversight of NIH, and specifically the ...
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Universities are facing big cuts to research funding. At Duke, it’s a time for ‘damage control’
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Duke University got $580 million in grants and contracts last year from the National Institutes of Health ...
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NIH terminating active research grants related to LGBTQ+, DEI studies
At least 24 termination letters have been sent out, according to one official. Several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and diversity, equity and ...
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High-security areas of 2 Kern prisons put on modified movement
Other facilities placed on modified program are Calipatria State Prison, Centinela State Prison, High Desert State Prison, California State Prison-Los Angeles County, Mule Creek State Prison ...
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Some NIH study sections will resume grant reviews, but final funding decisions are still in limbo
Dozens of NIH study sections — meetings in which panels of expert scientists consider which research projects the agency should support — have been canceled in recent weeks, after the Trump ...