Congress Is Rejecting Trump’s Steep Budget Cuts to Science

After the White House called for billions of dollars in funding reductions, senators and representatives are rescinding the ...
The Hill

Cutting federal funding for basic research will hurt the US economy

Amidst ongoing budget brinkmanship in Washington, House and Senate panels have proposed significant cuts in federal funding for basic scientific research. That would be a grave mistake for our ...
phillyvoice.com

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – as 2 Penn scientists just demonstrated

The 2023 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, of the University of Pennsylvania, for their discovery that modifying mRNA – a form of genetic material ...
Forbes

Basic Research Matters: Meet The Winners Of 2024’s Golden Goose Awards

The Golden Goose Awards recognize research projects that may appear obscure at first, but ultimately lead to major scientific breakthroughs. The three recipients of the Golden Goose Award for 2024 ...
Nature

From basic research to budding biotechs, under one roof with Stuart Schreiber

When SARS-CoV-2 swept the world in early 2020, Stuart Schreiber banded together with a group of scientists to try to find a path out of the pandemic. They poured over papers and preprints, and ...
The Conversation

Tenacious curiosity in the lab can lead to a Nobel Prize – mRNA research exemplifies the unpredictable value of basic scientific research

André O. Hudson receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. We asked André O. Hudson, a biochemist and microbiologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology, to explain how basic ...