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Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
NatureFriday, September 4, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Nature, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02799-5 An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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- Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product. Nature, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02799-5 An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Nature, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10. 1038/d41586-026-02799-5 An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Scientific signal separates durable discovery from noise — and often foreshadows policy and product.
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Nature published: Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
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