Simar Bajaj

When the funding came back, it wasn't just like turning back on the research light switch, so to say.

He called back his postdoc that he had been working with, but that guy had taken a job elsewhere.

He wanted to work with his manufacturer to get the device back up and running, but that manufacturer had moved on and he had to find someone else.

He wanted to restart the animal study, but when he reached back to the farms, the sheep had grown and they weren't the right size anymore to test this device in.

The funding pause was for seven months, but Dr. Ntaki estimates that it set his research back at least double that amount of time.

This has been playing out in labs across the country where research has been turned on and off because of the Trump administration's approach to science funding.

And really what it reveals is that high-level scientific research is fragile.

It depends on timing.

It depends on momentum.

And when all this is thrown off, the research and its life-saving potential is really thrown into question.

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