The National Institutes of Health announced that it will end its funding of research that uses human fetal tissue.

Human fetal tissue research has helped in the development of some vaccines.

On January 22, 2026, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued NOT-OD-26-028, prohibiting the use of NIH funds for ...

Throughout the second Trump administration, the NIH has frozen billions of dollars in research funding to universities. Those ...

The Trump administration is ending the use of abortion-derived fetal tissue in research funded by the National Institutes of ...

The lawsuit’s outcome could have major implications for millions of Americans, especially after Congress voted in 2025 to slash state Medicaid funding, a major source of care for people with ...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has reinstated a ban on the research use of human fetal tissue (HFT) obtained from abortions, a prohibition originally put in place during President Trump’s ...

Beyer is an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Ashlee Ford Versypt hopes the work will allow physicians to better predict how to promote regeneration across different tissue systems in the body.

Rutgers School of Nursing Taps World-Renowned NIH Investigator as Inaugural Vice Dean of Research Leorey Saligan has been ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget for 2026 slashes funds for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by $17.97 billion. The 2026 blueprint was shared Friday (PDF) and allows the NIH to ...