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Research labs struggle to stay afloat after funding cuts

Research labs across the country are struggling to stay afloat after the Trump administration cut funding for research and put limitations on the type of research that can be done with federal dollars.

Angus Chen, cancer reporter at our editorial partner STAT, the health and medicine publication, has been looking into this. He met with Harvard University biologist John Quackenbush, whose lab has been impacted by funding cuts.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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