Tuesday, April 08, 2025

NIH Layoffs Are Delaying Cancer Breakthrough

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health demonstrated a promising step toward using a person's own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers in a paper in Nature Medicine on Tuesday, the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs that left many NIH personnel in tears.

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Trump and Elon Musk's mass layoffs are holding up ... life-saving cancer research. This is the opposite of efficient.

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-- Tammy Duckworth (@duckworth.senate.gov) April 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM

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MAGA always takes the side of the disease.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-07 10:23 AM

Sorry cancer patients but curing cancer is not as important as destroying the United States.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-08 11:44 AM

#1 Maga is the disease

#3 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-08 11:44 AM

Remember Student Loans?
It would be unfair to people who already died of cancer, to cure cancer now.

Oh, you've got cancer?
"ONLY THE WEAK WILL FAIL!"

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 11:50 AM

hoax

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-08 11:59 AM

hoax

#5 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

Yeah, you are pretty much.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-04-08 12:09 PM

hoax

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan

cult

#7 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-08 12:20 PM

Oh my! Literally millions of Federal workers and Trump and Musk have laid off a minuscule fraction of them. An they are only ones doing something worthwhile. What are the odds? Pretty close to zero Chicken Little.

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-04-08 12:58 PM

The putrid orange pedo fired the doctor who saved his life.
www.dailykos.com

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-04-08 01:01 PM

"Literally millions of Federal workers and Trump and Musk have laid off a minuscule fraction of them."

There are not millions of Federal workers doing cancer research.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-08 01:02 PM

It's hilarious how far partisan people will go to try to fearmonger. First off, you can't prove a negative...something liberals say every single time someone says prove there isn't a God. Secondly, you are actually insinuating that we have been working on cancer solutions for decades and all of a sudden we are going to miss a breakthrough because we aren't spending the same funding on research for a little while.

I mean, liberals are already known as the party of hypocrisy now. You don't need to add more labels like they are the party of nonsense to that list. We don't need any more reasons to get a blowhard Republican voted into office after Trump. Do better.

#11 | Posted by humtake at 2025-04-08 03:34 PM

#11 | Posted by humtake

Holy Crap! Trump did it!

He made the Republicans Pro-Cancer!

#12 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-08 03:52 PM

Wait a minute - Biden told me he was going to cure cancer during his term. Are you telling me he didn't do what he promised? No way.

#13 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-04-08 07:43 PM

Wait a minute - Biden told me he was going to cure cancer during his term. Are you telling me he didn't do what he promised? No way.

#13 | Posted by ScottS

You can't even troll properly. God, you're boring.

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-04-09 10:33 AM

Wait a minute - Biden told me he was going to cure cancer during his term. Are you telling me he didn't do what he promised? No way.

#13 | Posted by ScottS

This is rich coming from an idiotic Trump f*&^er.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-04-09 10:53 AM

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