Ex-NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli made the claim at a March 28 Senate roundtable. “I can assure you that NIH has never funded transgender mice,” Bertagnolli said.

A line from Trump’s speech to Congress had ripple effects on health research funding for everything from HIV to asthma to ...

The NIH has pumped millions of dollars into giving transgender hormone treatments to animals in an effort to better ... The mice suffered “defects in ovarian architecture,” according to ...

CNN issued a correction after the network inaccurately asserted that President Donald Trump “falsely claimed” the Biden ...

Trump's trans mice lie was meant to delegitimize the science community. We cannot grasp the inner workings of the Trumpian brain, but Donald’s sycophants likely looked through titles of research ...

In a significant move, the NIH said it would reduce its reliance on animals in federally funded research and instead prioritize human-based alternatives.

An NIH spokesperson said, ... You know, it's very easy, for instance, to cure Alzheimer's in mice. But that doesn't — those things don't translate to humans.

Last week, the NIH abruptly changed its funding rules for scientific research, ... You know, they rely on that money to keep mice in labs alive and keep clinical trials with patients going.