Breakthrough Prize-Winning Biochemist on the Deadly Cost of Funding Cuts
Season 2025
Episode 7237
About the Episode
For decades the United States has been at the forefront of medical research. But now the Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in funding for universities, hospitals, and other scientific institutions that carry out that research. David Liu is a biochemist and biologist who developed two exceptionally precise gene-editing tools that offer new hope for untreatable cancers.
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