Lawmakers from both parties are moving to put more money into stopping the spread of Ebola in the U.S., driven by a greater sense of urgency after a nurse in Dallas was infected with the deadly virus.

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The Neuro Startup Challenge aims to create new startup companies that could help commercialize brain-related inventions developed by the NIH.

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An American doctor exposed to the Ebola virus after a needle stick in Sierra Leone has been released from isolation and sent home.

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Vasoptic Medical Inc., a resident company of the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship — Howard County’s technology incubator — in Columbia has been awarded a two-year grant totaling more than $650,000 from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health.

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The National Institutes of Health awarded a $10.7 million grant to the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, a division of the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, to examine the causes of schizophrenia and search for possible new treatments.

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The Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, the National Institutes of Health and the National Football League are putting their heads together to study youth concussions.

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NEW YORK — Some 60 years ago, a doctor in Baltimore removed cancer cells from a poor black patient named Henrietta Lacks without her knowledge or consent. Those cells eventually helped lead to a multitude of medical treatments and laid ...

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The National Institutes of Health will spend up to $24 million a year for the next four years to establish research centers aimed at improving the scientific community’s ability to meaningfully work with large, complex data sets.

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Success rates for grant applications aren’t the whole story. Many scientists actually say they’re deceptive.

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Those who think federal sequestration is little more than political theater might do well to take a closer look at the real and potentially long-lasting impacts it is having on the world of medical research.

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