Tag: National Institutes of Health
RFK Jr. was confirmed to be Trump’s health secretary
The US Senate has voted to confirm Ted Kennedy as the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which oversees the FDA, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health. Kennedy told the Senate that he supported vaccines and believes that they have saved lives. Kennedy can do a lot on vaccines including appointing advisors.
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Citizen science can be used to increase the amount of big-data projects
Researchers have published the most complete wiring diagram of the fruit fly’s brain, which includes more than 145,000 nerve cells and over 50 million connections. “It could be used for larger connectome projects that the BRAIN Initiative is funding,” John Ngai, director of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative at US National Institutes of Health, said.
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