NIH to redirect budget funds toward Department of Defense research

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The National Institutes of Health plans to allocate a portion of its budget to fund research conducted by the Department of Defense. The move comes after NIH leadership indicated it no longer wished to support certain research areas internally. This arrangement would effectively transfer funding responsibility for that research to the Pentagon. The decision raises questions about the future direction of federally funded scientific research in the United States.

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