Hacker News with Generative AI: Biomedical Research

NIH to update policies and practices guiding subawards (nih.gov)
The National Institutes of Health’s mission is powered by the public’s investment. As such, NIH continually seeks ways to improve transparency in all that we do, especially in accounting for every dollar spent in support of lifesaving biomedical research, both here and abroad. Today I am announcing changes to NIH’s award structure that will enable NIH to maintain strong, productive, and secure foreign collaborations while better tracking how dollars are spent.
NIH, Research Funding, Government Policy, Biomedical Research, International Collaboration
5 points by weksf54 22 days ago | 1 comments
Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies (nature.com)
In an unprecedented effort, a coalition of more than 50 research teams has surveyed a swathe of Brazilian biomedical studies to double-check their findings — with dismaying results.
Biomedical Research, Reproducibility, Science, Research
267 points by rntn 28 days ago | 125 comments
'Never seen anything like this' – NIH meetings and travel halted abruptly (nature.com)
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
Science, Research Funding, Public Health, Biomedical Research
150 points by anigbrowl 119 days ago | 111 comments
Energy-based model explains how chronic stress transforms into disease over time (sciencedirect.com)
Chronic psychosocial stress increases disease risk and mortality, but the underlying mechanisms remain largely unclear.
Science, Health, Stress, Disease, Biomedical Research
186 points by andrewstetsenko 215 days ago | 55 comments