The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit medical ethics group, filed a complaint today, May 28, 2025, with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare, requesting an investigation of—and corrective action and penalties associated with—decades-long alcohol- and reproductive-related experiments on nonhuman primates at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). On May 19, 2025, the national nonprofit reached out to OHSU asking for the studies to be shut down. The ongoing experiments, which receive funding from the National Institutes of Health, have cost more than $70 million.

Carnegie Mellon University Africa announced today that the African Engineering and Technology Network (Afretec) has signed its ninth university partner, Universidade Agostinho Neto. The network, launched in 2022, provides a vehicle for technology-focused universities in Africa to engage in deep collaboration to drive digital growth, create technology development and job growth, and shape policy change.

When considering how to use marine spaces and allocate resources to their management, policymakers would do well to take a gender-sensitive approach. So say UC Santa Barbara researchers and their collaborators in a study published in the journal Marine Policy. According to their findings, globally, men and women tend to use the ocean in different ways, with implications for how marine spaces are used and valued.

Advances in human stem cell-derived disease models have the potential to augment our predictive power for the efficacy and safety of new drugs. This technology, which complements existing approaches, is poised to reduce R&D costs and accelerate the development of new therapies for patients.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has assembled an international consortium of cross-sector thought leaders from industry, academia, and regulatory science to enable the widespread, responsible adoption.

A newly refined method for measuring the Pace of Aging in population-based studies provides a powerful tool for predicting risks associated with aging, including chronic illness, cognitive impairment, disability, and mortality. Developed by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the method offers researchers and policy makers a novel approach to quantify how quickly individuals and populations experience age-related health decline.

When formulating climate policy, too little attention is paid to social factors and too much to technological breakthroughs and economic reasons. Because citizens are hardly heard in this process, European governments risk losing public support at a crucial moment in the climate debate. This is the conclusion of several researchers from Radboud University in a paper published this week in Earth System Governance.