Angie Voyles Askham
Senior Reporter at The Transmitter
senior reporter @_TheTransmitter / neuroscience PhD / mother of two Email: [email protected] Signal: avaskham.54
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1 week ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
The Trump administration has canceled two grants—among the slew of U.S. federal grants terminated at Harvard University in recent months—that together provided more than $4 million in funding to map more of the mouse brain than ever before. The grants were awarded by the National Institutes of Health’s BRAIN Initiative Connectivity Across Scales program, which launched in 2023 to scale up connectomic capabilities.
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2 weeks ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
The mice were, for all intents and purposes, identical: They were all derived from the same inbred colony, making them genetically the same, and they were all reared in a shared environment. At first, they all behaved identically, too, in the 2019 study on alcohol consumption at Vanderbilt University—they quickly learned how to access the drinking spout and imbibed similar amounts of the intoxicating liquid.
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2 weeks ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
A class of immune cells releases endogenous opioids to quell pain in female—but not male—mice, according to a new study. This sex-specific mechanism for pain modulation at the spinal cord may help explain why women are disproportionately diagnosed with chronic pain, the researchers say.
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2 weeks ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
Some employees at the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) who received layoff notices last month are no longer facing termination, The Transmitter has learned. On 1 April, 30 institute employees—including 11 lab heads—received notices of reduction in force (RIF), the result of a coding error, The Transmitter previously reported. They were then asked on 2 April to return to work “immediately” and have since been receiving their salaries.
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1 month ago |
thetransmitter.org | Angie Voyles Askham
Neuroscience research backed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) could undergo major upheaval and budget cuts, if things go according to a leaked proposal from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The 64-page document, dated 10 April and first reported by The Washington Post, proposes an NIH budget of just under $27 billion—about a 40 percent cut from the 2025 budget of $47 billion.
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