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Early-Career Scientists Face an Uncertain Future
Federal funding cuts for scientific and medical research are forcing graduate students and postdocs to rethink long-held career plans
A Former Member of ACIP on the Dismantling of the Vaccine Recommendation Process
Lin Chen helped shape recommendations on vaccines. Now she worries about the future of the U.S. health care infrastructure and the spread of preventable disease.
David Kessler on What Doctors and Patients Should Know About GLP-1 Drugs
GLP-1 agonists have enormous potential for public health. But “we don’t know enough about how to use these drugs in the real world,” says the former head of the FDA.
The Genetics of Height
A fascination with the heredity of height has led to insights about the biology of growth and disease
Science in the Balance
“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”
Tom Rapoport unlocks the secrets of protein travel
Tracing the Path from Basic Research to Transformative Therapies
Decades of federal funding for science have yielded enormous returns for human health
A Brief History of Federal Funding for Basic Science
The partnership that transformed American biomedical research
Solving Medicine’s Most Elusive Mysteries
The Undiagnosed Diseases Network identifies the rarest of diseases and discovers new ones
Cancer Journeys
The Long Journey of Gordon Freeman and Arlene Sharpe
The two immunologists have shared a lifetime of scientific exploration and discovery
The Neuroscience of Cancer
Scientists are making surprising discoveries about the connections between cancer and the nervous system
Who Will Care for Cancer Survivors?
A growing number of patients living with and after cancer are shuffled between oncology and primary care. Can survivorship be transformed for both patients and physicians?
Asking the Right Questions in Cancer Research
Levi Garraway on his career in academia and industry