Our nation's top medical research agency is facing a major leadership vacuum. Right now, more than a dozen key director positions at the National Institutes of Health are unfilled. All but two of these vacancies opened after President Trump took office last year.>> The 139year-old agency remains the world's largest public funer of biomemed research for treatments and vaccines. NIH is also responsible for communicating crucial information about public health. For more, we want to bring in NBC News health rep ...

Great article from @jeremyakahn in Fortune on the huge impact of AlphaFold on biological and biomedical research.Jeremy Kahn (@jeremyakahn):Five years on, Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold shows why science may be AI’s killer app https://t.co/rt0XgSTGlo ...

Quote, "In the mid1 1970s, America's 5-year cancer survival rate sat at 49%. Today, it's 68%. " But now, an extraordinarily successful scientific research system, one that took decades to build and has saved millions of lives and has generated billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors. That system is being dismantled before our eyes. President Trump's proposed budget for next year calls for a more than 37% cut to the National Cancer Institute. Yeah. You'll remember when Trump was r ...