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Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US | President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research


President’s call to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ has led to slashes in NIH funding – endangering jobs and vital research

Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu became emotional as they spoke to the Guardian about the possibility of losing their life’s work. Tuthill was scheduled to give a seminar to the NIH on 3 February, and had already travelled to Washington DC when he was informed the talk was cancelled due to a Trump administration directive banning communication between federal health agencies and the public. Popal won an NIH grant that allowed him to continue his research on brain development and autism while staying close to his ailing father.

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