New checklist tool addresses ethical challenges in portable MRI research
Portable MRI (pMRI) technologies are rapidly transforming the landscape of neuroscience research, allowing neuroscientists to acquire brain data in community settings outside the hospital for the ...
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Researchers identify a brain circuit for creativity
Brigham researchers analyzed data from 857 patients across 36 fMRI brain imaging studies and mapped a common brain circuit for creativity.
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Judge temporarily blocks NIH research cuts after 22 states sue
“Without relief from NIH’s action, these institutions’ cutting-edge work to cure and treat human disease will grind to a halt.” The NIH is the primary source of federal funding for medical ...
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NIH cuts overhead funding for research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education.
Long-COVID patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments
Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event. Estimates vary, but the CDC puts it at 17 million adults.
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NIH scraps program to diversify the biomedical workforce, a longtime goal of science
Applications for a prestigious National Institutes of Health grant program that supports Ph.D. students from marginalized backgrounds are abruptly being pulled from consideration during grant ...
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NIH resumes critical grant-making process after federal communications freeze at HHS
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will resume important meetings and travel associated with the critical grant-review process amid an agency-wide communications freeze at the Department of ...
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NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately
“The United States should have the best medical research in the world,” NIH said in its announcement. “It is accordingly vital to ensure that as many funds as possible go towards direct ...
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I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.
The meeting was abruptly canceled Wednesday in a terse email from an NIH staff member; I soon heard from colleagues that all such committees, and other related meetings in the grant process that ...
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First-ever ethics checklist for portable MRI brain researchers
To prepare neuroscientists to address these challenges, an interdisciplinary team of scientists, ethicists, and legal experts, supported by an NIH BRAIN Initiative grant, analyzed the issues.
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Here’s how big a hit some universities may take if NIH slashes support for indirect research costs
The big losers would include prestigious institutions in conservative states. The NIH, the nation’s top funder of biomedical research, announced on Friday that it would substantially limit ...