The government shutdown, which started after Congress failed to reach an agreement on spending, also has resulted in the closure of all Smithsonian museums in Washington and New York.
The first US government shutdown in 17 years has resulted in hundreds of thousands of workers on unpaid leave and monuments and museums closed.
But elsewhere on the campus, where about 6000 researchers work in intramural laboratories, the shutdown "has resulted in a profound loss of momentum," NIH said in its statement.
Such drugs account for most of the estimated 9,000 patent applications waiting for approval in India, according to Doctors Without Borders, which warned that such a ruling would have resulted in a "shutdown of the pharmacy for the developing world".
The newspaper strike, which is expected to last until, perhaps after, Thanksgiving, is the only dispute that has resulted in more than a temporary shutdown.
The lengthy downturn already has resulted in more than 5 million jobs lost in the U.S. since December 2007, and companies still are announcing mass layoffs and extended plant shutdowns.
His blunt speech in April charging that some reformist newspapers had become "bases of the enemy" resulted in the shutdown of 18 reformist publications.
British tabloids have also had to confront questions about their credibility since the phone-hacking scandal, which resulted in the shutdown of The News of the World, a sibling to The Sun in News Corporation's stable.
Their delay had caused months of protests and a stand-off that resulted in the shutdown of parliament in January.
The bank had conducted some maintenance work in the early hours of Sunday morning that resulted in the shutdown of online, telephone and mobile banking.
