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As a bioethicist and philosopher explains the ethics of using organs grown in animals for human transplant procedures.

From a Justice Department press release two weeks ago (I learned about the case just today from the excellent Science… The post "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Agrees to Pay $15M to Settle Fraud Allegations Related to Scientific Research Grants" appeared first on Reason.com.

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health

As a young medical student in 1975, I walked into a basement lab at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, to interview for a summer job.

“It’s like taking the dust jacket off of the book and saying, ‘We’ve got rid of the book,’” one federal employee said.

In a Maryland operating room one day in November 2025, doctors made medical history by transplanting a genetically modified pig kidney into a living patient. The kidney had been engineered to mimic human tissue and was grown in a pig, as an alternative to waiting around for a human organ…

White Coat Waste finds $1.7m in NIH grants for cat research months after officials said they were working to end studies

The Trump administration has slashed funding for medical research, delaying some treatments and cures for health conditions affecting retirees.

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