Stories by Max Kozlov

Eight of the top 10 officials at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have now been pushed out since President Donald Trump took office

A new analysis shows that the Trump administration has terminated more than 100 advisory committees to science agencies—and reduced the transparency and independence of those that remain.

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

Damage to the blood-brain barrier is linked to immune changes and cognitive decline

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds

The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by RFK, Jr., and J. D. Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving U.S. health policy

A noninvasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world

Hundreds of people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details

Ant queens of one species are sexual parasites that clone ants of another species to create hybrid workers that do their bidding

Senators grilled NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya the day after more than 300 NIH staff members sent him a fiery letter protesting the cancellation of thousands of research projects

An analysis reveals which fields of science and U.S. states are being hit hardest by National Institutes of Health grant terminations

The Trump Administration has fired four leaders and thousands of employees at the National Institutes of Health in “one of the darkest days”

Studies on COVID, climate change and South Africa are on the latest list of terminated grants by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, according to updated documents obtained by Nature

The Trump administration has acted fast to attack science with a range of funding and policy tactics

Researchers in the U.S. are grappling with Trump administration executive orders around health and science agency funding and communications.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has unfrozen grant funding, but it continues to scrutinize research projects, sowing turmoil

President Trump has placed an indefinite suspension on research grant reviews and travel at the National Institutes of Health and appears to have erased diversity programming pages at the agency’s website

After his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed a host of executive orders, some with important implications for science

Sweeping reorganization and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the U.S. National Institutes of Health

Analysis of a strain of the virus circulating in Central Africa shows genetic mutations indicative of sustained human-to-human spread

As the daughter of a cancer researcher, Kamala Harris would bring a lifelong familiarity with science to the presidency, experts say

Congressional representatives grilled Anthony Fauci, former head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, about the government’s early response to the COVID pandemic

A small South Pacific fern boasts more than 50 times as many base pairs as the human genome