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American Science, Shattered
An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that crucial alliance. A multipart series on how the Trump administration has disrupted labs, upended lives, and delayed discoveries
For a substantial group of U.S. researchers, 2025 will be remembered as the year their path to a career in science was closed off, their dreams …
Brittney Dockery searched for the right words to say goodbye. Her message might have gotten across, if not for 25 million years of evolution. “Behave …
Breanna Cutright was getting her nails painted purple for junior prom when the email arrived on her phone with bad news. Raze, an anti-tobacco …
BOSTON — The offices at John Quackenbush’s lab at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health were once full of postdoctoral fellows, graduate …
The MOSAIC program is the type of early-career research grant that checks many of the boxes of the Trump administration. National Institutes of Health …
Medical student Tyler Harvey was planning to take the high-stakes Step 1 exam in about a week. It’s the first and perhaps most difficult hurdle on …
Over the course of 2025, STAT interviewed scientists, patients, university administrators, federal health workers, and others whose lives were …
MONTPELLIER, France — When Pleuni Pennings and her family came to this university town in the south of France at the beginning of the year, the plan …
Alex Bates was lying on her couch on a Friday afternoon when her phone began blowing up. It was a moment she and her colleagues had spent years …
On May 23, 2023, Kelly Barta arrived at the National Institutes of Health to figure out what was wrong with her. In a sense, she already knew: She …
