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Model organism databases face budget cuts and closures

Beyond the crucial data they contain, these digital archives have provided an important space for academic communities to exchange ideas and resources.
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  1. Amanda Heidt

    1. Amanda Heidt is a freelance journalist in southeast Utah.

A key repository for the world’s fruit-fly research community became an unexpected casualty of Harvard University’s continuing conflict with the administration of US President Donald Trump. In May, the administration froze more than US$2.2 billion in federal funds that were awarded to the university, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that supported the repository, called FlyBase. Harvard University, which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit to end the funding freeze, and the case has been making its way through the courts.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03040-5

References

  1. Sharma, G. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.19206 (2025).

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