Human fetal tissue research has helped in the development of some vaccines.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said that it will stop funding all research that uses human fetal tissue, ending ...

Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to ...

The biomedical research giant is largely run by 27 institute and center directors. Will those roles become politicized?

The Trump administration announced Thursday that human fetal tissue derived from abortions can no longer be used in research ...

The National Institutes of Health banned the use of aborted fetal tissue in all agency-funded research Thursday — a policy ...

Earlier this month, a Trump administration plan to cut the National Institutes of Health budget by more than 40% was leaked to the press. The preliminary budget sent shockwaves through the nation's ...

Francis Collins, former director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Human Genome Project, combined ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2026 slashes funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $17.97 billion. The 2026 blueprint was shared Friday (PDF) and allows the NIH to ...

On March 6, 2025, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within ...

On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of 4 of the 27 institutes and centres that make up the agency — including the ...

Scientists denounced the move, arguing that fetal tissue is crucial for understanding human development and diseases.