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Trump cuts threaten a ‘generation of scientists’ as many weigh leaving US

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National Institutes of Health ( NIH ) is the biggest funder of biomedical research in the world.

Scientists studying neuroscience, diabetes, autism and bird flu fear losing their life’s work.

A federal judge has since blocked the NIH funding cuts for now.

Some scientists are considering leaving the US and applying for visas to work in Spain .

“I don’t really want to go back,” Norton said. “I’ve worked so hard to establish myself here Now I’m a citizen. I have my family here. I have kids that were born here.”.