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Greenland, Denmark and the United States signed an agreement that expands Arctic defence cooperation while reaffirming Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination. It still needs parliamentary procedures in Denmark and Greenland before entering into force.

The United States may modernize Pituffik Space Base and propose additional defence areas, but any new area requires mutual agreement. Activity inside agreed areas must respect Greenlandic society, hunting, fishing and cultural traditions to the maximum extent possible.

The agreement has no fixed end date and can be amended only by mutual consent. If Greenland becomes independent, the governments commit to ensuring it remains in, or joins, NATO and assumes the agreement’s obligations.

On September 21, NIH unveiled five initiatives to build human-based biomedical research. Animal models remain important; NIH aims to reduce their use when feasible, not declare them obsolete.

The package includes $88 million for 10 construction projects in nine states, a challenge offering more than $7 million for prototype sensing tools, and a planned laboratory combining organoids, robotics, AI and data.

NIH also asked whether annual public counts of live vertebrate animals in its funded labs are feasible and recruited reviewers expert in human-based methods. The infrastructure was announced; its future predictive performance remains to be tested.