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The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH

2025/4/10
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This chapter discusses the mass firings and funding cuts at the NIH, CDC, and FDA. Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider editor, provides details on the events of April 1st, 2025, including the removal of institute directors and the termination of thousands of employees. The potential impacts on drug approvals, public health initiatives, and ongoing research are also discussed, along with legal challenges to the actions.
  • Mass firings at NIH, CDC, and FDA on April 1st, 2025
  • Reductions in contracts by 35%
  • Removal of institute directors at NIH
  • Legal challenges to grant cuts and firings
  • Concerns about slowing drug approvals and public health initiatives

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First up on the podcast, ScienceInsider Editor Jocelyn Kaiser joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss big changes in science funding and government jobs this month, including an order to cut billions in contracts, lawsuits over funding caps and grant funding cancellations, and mass firings at the National Institutes of Health.

 

Next on the show, taking sleep loss more seriously. Jennifer Tudor), an associate professor of biology at Saint Joseph’s University, talks about how skipping out on sleep has many metabolic consequences), from reducing protein synthesis in our brains to making our muscles less efficient at using ATP. Her new review in Science Signaling suggests that given these impacts, we should stop putting sleep last on our to-do lists.

 

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy).

 

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Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jocelyn Kaiser

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