It’s striking that all the scientists/doctors emphatically credit federal research funding as integral to making basically every step of this possible, from diagnosis to developing the bespoke treatment. And the overall story is a showcase of everything that’s long been amazing about America.
As federal funding for biomedical research gets stripped out by the Trump gang as “waste,” this is the kind of story we’ll hear less and less about in years to come. And real people, including newborn babies, will die of what may have been curable/treatable conditions in an alternate timeline.
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and not a moment too soon
It’s striking that all the scientists/doctors emphatically credit federal research funding as integral to making basically every step of this possible, from diagnosis to developing the bespoke treatment. And the overall story is a showcase of everything that’s long been amazing about America.
As federal funding for biomedical research gets stripped out by the Trump gang as “waste,” this is the kind of story we’ll hear less and less about in years to come. And real people, including newborn babies, will die of what may have been curable/treatable conditions in an alternate timeline.