Keep pulling the thread on Zach Weinberg and Derek Thompson.
The president's budget proposes budget cuts of approximately 40% for the National Institutes of Health and 50% for the National Science Foundation.
The widespread belief linking vaccines to autism is based on a fraudulent, retracted 1998 study by Andrew Wakefield that involved only 12 participants.
The heat-resistant bacterial enzymes required for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology were originally isolated in the 1960s from bacteria in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park.
The proposed budget for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is being reduced by $18 billion to approximately $27 billion.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently announced an 80% funding cut to the Women's Health Initiative, the largest longitudinal study on women's health in history.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reversed its decision to cut funding for the Women's Health Initiative 48 hours after being contacted by The New York Times and the journal Science.
There is currently no viable market for developing new antibiotics for resistant bacteria due to hospital reimbursement models that disincentivize their use.
The United States market typically accounts for 50% to 60% of all global revenue for a new pharmaceutical drug.
The number of new drugs approved per billion dollars of R&D spending has declined by approximately 50% every decade since the 1950s.
Premium drug pricing in the United States serves as a primary incentive for pharmaceutical innovation.
mRNA technology was originally developed as a therapeutic for treating diseases, not as a vaccine, and a significant early challenge was the immune system's reaction to it.
BioNTech was the company that developed the fundamental vaccine recipe for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.