US Science in Peril

[Akita Suggagaki]

Although study sections have largely resumed, disruptions at the NIH persist. The chaos was compounded on February 7, 2025, by the announcement of a drastic cut to US scientific infrastructure, slashing indirect costs on federal grants to 15%.

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[Akita Suggagaki]

In less than a month, the Trump administration has frozen research funds, halted health communications and publications, vanished decades of health and behavior data from its websites, terminated federally funded studies, and prompted researchers to scrub extensive lists of terms from manuscripts and grant proposals.

The Erasing of American Science

How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

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