(Nature) – The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has expanded its cuts to science funding, terminating a growing list of research projects that now encompasses hundreds of grants funding studies on a wide range of topics — from HIV in children to reducing mould exposure and its effect on asthma. And concern is growing among scientists that research investigating mRNA vaccines might be next.

Nature has learnt that the agency has already terminated at least one grant that supported a scientist at Columbia University in New York City who was investigating the body’s immune response to an mRNA vaccine against COVID-19. (Read More)