NIH Budget Sequestration Cuts Impact

Sequestration to Cut NIH Budget By $1.55 Billion in 2013; Research Scientists React

By Ashik Siddique | May 08, 2013 08:32 PM EDT

The federal budget sequestration will cut $1.55 billion from the NIH in 2013, dramatically downsizing available awards and hindering ongoing biomedical research. Scientists are already taking to Twitter to denounce the #NIHSequesterImpact.

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Senate GOP Defeats UN Treaty on Rights of the Disabled

By Makini Brice | Dec 05, 2012 10:29 AM EST

The treaty was modeled after the landmark Civil Rights legislation, the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.

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US' House Science Committee Rep. Believes Evolution, Big Bang Theory and Embryology Are 'Lies From the Pit of Hell'

By Makini Brice | Oct 08, 2012 04:59 PM EDT

The House of Representatives' Science Committee has gotten itself into a bit of hot water again as another member of the committee has said something that contradicts with the scientific consensus.

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