Monday's ruling by U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley puts on hold funding caps for indirect research costs such as lab security and administrative support. The administration's policy would slash funding for those expenses to 15% from the current 27% to 28% average, CBS News reported.

Laboratories would literally go dark,” says a medical research insider, if Trump administration cuts to NIH funding go through. Patients will suffer from lost medical advances, he tells Scientific Ame

Oregon and 21 other states sued Monday to block the National Institutes of Health’s surprise slashing of medical research support.