My Hobby and Interest - Research

 Nature Index China overtakes the United States in cancer research output China takes pole position in cancer-related research in the Nature Index, with a massive jump in output. Heating up In 2024, China overtook the United States in cancer research output in the Nature Index for the first time, taking its place as the leading country in the field. With a 19% jump in Share that year, China’s improvement was much stronger than the United States’, whose output only increased by 5% between 2023 and 2024. Preferred partner The United States is the unequivocal leader in cancer-research collaboration, being involved in the top 10 partnerships in the field by bilateral collaboration score. The United States–China collaboration, seen here among other selected US cancer-research partnerships, lost significant ground in 2021, which it might struggle to regain if political tensions between the countries continue. Leader of the pack Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is in a cla...

 Nature News Will US science survive Trump 2.0? President Donald Trump and his administration have gutted science agencies, terminated research programmes and cancelled billions of dollars in grants to universities. What are the long-term impacts for the United States and the world? By   Jeff Tollefson ,  Dan Garisto  &  Heidi Ledford In just the first three months of his second term, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. His administration has fired thousands of government scientists, bringing large swathes of the country’s research to a standstill and halting many clinical trials. It has threatened to  slash billions in funding from US research universities  and has terminated more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and HIV prevention. This looks likely to be just the beginning. Congress approved a budget bill on 10 April that could lay the groundwor...

  Regulatory Changes & Guidance Updates April 29, 2025 MaineHealth Government Affairs’ Regulatory Changes & Guidance Updates is an internal newsletter that is distributed weekly and includes state and federal proposed and final rules, policy changes, and other pertinent announcements from the state and federal governments. Please note that any formal submissions to the state or federal government on behalf of MaineHealth are coordinated by the Government Affairs Team. State & Federal Rulemaking Federal: None this week. State: Maine CDC issued a  notice of agency rulemaking adoption  for Chapter 707, Rules Relating to the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Screening Program in Maine. The comment summary and responses can be found  here . Maine CDC issued a  notice of agency rulemaking adoption  for Chapter 708, Rules Relating to the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act.  To comment on proposed rules, please contact ...

NIH news release  Tuesday, April 29, 2025 NIH to prioritize human-based research technologies New initiative aims to reduce use of animals in NIH-funded research. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is adopting a new initiative to expand innovative, human-based science while reducing animal use in research. Developing and using cutting-edge alternative nonanimal research models aligns with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)  recent initiative (link is external)  to reduce testing in animals. While traditional animal models continue to be vital to advancing scientific knowledge, using new and emerging technologies can offer unique strengths that, when utilized correctly or in combination, can expand the toolbox for researchers to answer previously difficult or unanswerable biomedical research questions. “For decades, our biomedical research system has relied heavily on animal models. With this initiative, NIH is ushering in a new era of innovation,” said NIH...