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The Biden administration proposed the creation of a high-risk, high-reward disease research agency called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to develop breakthrough treatments for cancer and Alzheimer s, an endeavor that the White House said will cost about $6.5 billion.
“We want to be able to continue the basic research that has made America the place to go when it comes to these discoveries, but we want to try to trigger transformation faster,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Thursday. “What we think we can do is help make things cook a lot faster by putting some additional money into that research and development.”
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Revamping Federal Climate Science
December 15, 2020, 5:00 am Getty/Liu Shiping/Xinhua
Sam Hananel
Ari Drennen
Introduction and summary
The United States has been the global leader in climate science for decades. Unfortunately, progress has slowed and in some cases, even moved backward over the past four years, with the Trump administration dismantling core elements of the federal climate science apparatus. As the country and the planet head toward an increasingly unstable climate, the U.S. government needs to get back to the business of being the preeminent source of trusted applied science that supports climate change mitigation and adaptation decision-making of governments and civilian stakeholders.