Tomorrow (04/25/2017) is Celebrate National DNA Day per the NIH.
As my wife said at dinner, “Celebrate by sharing!” – love that woman.
Sad truth is, the Trump administration wants to cut NIH funding by 18% in their proposed FY 2018 budget. As is noted in Science News ” Supporters of biomedical research call the proposal “disastrous” and say such deep cuts will topple the United States from its position as the world leader of biomedical research. “We’re not going to be No. 1 anymore. We’re going to slide down to the bottom of the pile,” says Jennifer Zeitzer, director of legislative relations at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.”
Other science based federal programs also face hard times under Trump, which tells us a lot about his lack of value for science.