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This Health Study Has Been Collecting Research Samples for 50 Years — Trump Cut Their Funding
Federal funding cut last spring threatens preservation of millions of biological samples from over 280,000 nurses collected over 50 years, risking ongoing disease research.
- In the past year the Trump administration terminated federal research funding to Harvard University, ending support for the 50-year nurses study that tracked participants' diets, activities and medicines.
- The Trump administration cited alleged antisemitism, and Willett said the administration terminated funding, researchers say, ending support for Harvard's long-running study.
- The Harvard laboratory freezers store blood, urine and toenail samples from more than 280,000 nurses collected repeatedly over time, requiring constant liquid nitrogen.
- Scrambling for funds, the small research team is searching for new support and remains optimistic it can keep freezers running through the end of the year.
- Researchers used the collection in the past year to test theories about Parkinson's disease, Type two diabetes, breast cancer and dementia, and they hope to discover how to live to 100 with good health.
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This health study has been collecting research samples for 50 years — Trump cut their funding
Since 1976, more than 280,000 nurses of different ages and backgrounds have donated their own biological specimens and provided detailed information about their health, lifestyle, and medications for researchers to study.
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