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Trump’s NIH challenges the model that underlies U.S. scientific dominance
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Susan Svrluga, and Joel Achenbach At Mark Peifer’s University of North Carolina lab, scientists study the elaborate machinery that cells use to communicate with one another, which often goes awry in colon cancer. Last week, the “cold …