Joseph Kim
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Under Trump, NIH funding disruptions have evolved. Here's what the numbers show (opens the original)
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wields a $47.5 billion budget. More than 80% of its funds go out the door as grants to answer pressing biomedical questions. Over the decades, those grants have helped decipher the human genome, eliminate the polio virus in the U.S. and turn AIDS from a death sentence to a survivable illness. But experts say this kind of fundamental science is coming up against an administration that has delayed funding and rerouted billions of dollars in research, resulti
These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump (opens the original)
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) wields a $47.5 billion budget. More than 80% of its funds go out the door as grants to answer pressing biomedical questions. Over the decades, those grants have helped decipher the human genome, eliminate the polio virus in the U.S. and turn AIDS from a death sentence to a survivable illness. But experts say this kind of fundamental science is coming up against an administration that has delayed funding and rerouted billions of dollars in research, resulti
A new vaccine could vanquish a major cause of deadly diarrheal disease (opens the original)
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Diarrhea has been a headline story in the United States this summer, with thousands of cases of explosive diarrhea traced to Cyclospora from tainted lettuce –- and the first two deaths from the outbreak now confirmed in Michigan. In other parts of the world, diarrhea is a constant — and deadly — threat. Over 1 million people die from diarrheal illness such as dysentery every year. Nearly half of them are children under age 5. Chad has the highest rate of childhood deaths: roughly 1 in 140 childr
Nicotine pouches can be marketed as 'lower risk' than cigarettes. Is that dangerous? (opens the original)
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It comes in flavors like "Cool Mint," "Smooth" and "Chill." It's on the Ferrari F1 race car. And it's addictive. A paperclip-size pouch filled with bleach-white fibers and nicotine crystals, placed between the lip and gum, leeches nicotine and other chemicals into the user's bloodstream — allowing anyone to use nicotine discreetly. One of the most popular brands of nicotine pouches, Zyn, got a boost from the Food and Drug Administration recently. The FDA authorized the company to advertise: "Usi
Video: Scientists watch orcas ram a sunfish so hard it explodes | WNYC (opens the original)
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"Don't play with your food" is a rule orcas don't seem to follow. Off the shores of Cabo San Lucas, Kathryn Ayres, a scientist at the ocean-health nonprofit Beneath The Waves, saw a surprising orca behavior: One orca holds a sunfish in its mouth, while another lines up and then rams it at high speed — leaving behind thousands of sunfish bits scattered like confetti. Ayres and her co-authors documented this "stabilize-and-ram" behavior in a paper published Thursday. "Seeing a large animal burst i
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