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AMERICAN SCIENCE HAS BEEN A BEACON for aspiring researchers since the end of World War II - when rivalry with the Soviet Union spurred the United States to invest massively into science and technology research and actively recruit the most brilliant thinkers from abroad.

Scientists saw the United States as a kind of a nationwide laboratory for pursuing work under the best conditions possible - a remarkable combination of positive pressure and competition that pushed them to their best work, paired with support that provided the time, space and resources needed to realize that work's full potential.

This American brain trust has resulted in over 400 Nobel laureates, more than any other country in the world.

As of 2023, an estimated 1.2 million people around the world held a Ph.D in science, or health earned at an American institution.

The United States accounts for 27 percent of the world's total research and development activity - the most of any nation - though China, at 22 percent, is closing in.

THIS is still far ahead of the next largest players : Japan [ 7 percent ], Germany [ 6 percent ] and South Korea [ 4 percent ].

This investment has been essential to the U.S. economy. More than 408,000 jobs are supported by  N.I.H grants. It's estimated that every dollar of N.I.H. funding produces $2.56 in economic activity.

So much of that success is because the U.S. government was willing to support the kind of basic science work that takes years, even generations, before resulting in monumental breakthroughs.

HUNDREDS of millions of dollars established the groundwork for key breakthroughs in mRNA technology before the Covid-19 pandemic, which helped set up Operation Speed for success.

Ozempic, and other GLP-1 drugs were inspired in part by N.I.H. - supported research into Gila monster venom in the 1980's; without that work, we might not have the current weight-loss revolution decades later.

FIFTY YEARS AGO - less than 60 percent of children diagnosed with pediatric cancer survived after five years. NOW., thanks to treatment funded and spearheaded by N.I.H. that survival rate is 85 percent.

Kristen Gram is a 22-year-old graduate student researching the type materials and hardware that might one day help reduce the enormous amount of energy new computer processing technologies use to function.

Her advisers recently warned her that federal funding cuts made it unlikely she'd secure a fellowship she needed to finish her degree.

Melanie Reuter is a 29-year-old graduate student whose work focuses on how the gut microbiome shapes human health and chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes. 

She wants to find more effective ways to treat diseases, with fewer side effects. She hoped to secure  federal funding to cover her education and provide a liveable stipend so she could concentrate on her research.

But her application for a National Institute of Health grant meant to support diverse candidates was pulled, without explanation, in February, just days before it was scheduled for review.

Student Francesca Walsh, 28, is in the last six months of earning her Ph.D in neuroscience and behavior.

She wants to study how the brain functions when making economic decisions, in an effort to protect economic markets and consumers from financial harm.

The postdoctoral jobs she planned to apply for have suddenly disappeared.

'' I felt the door of an entire sector of jobs, including federal research jobs, slam overnight,'' she said. '' It's very disheartening and sometimes I wish I just became an accountant.''

AMERICA with historic honours has always been an attractive destination for science because of its express support for free inquiry - the ability of researchers to study what mattered most to them, even if there wasn't a straight path to success and profits.

That commitment appears to be crumbling. Young U.S. scientists are just about to lose faith.

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