U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) sits in front of a graph that shows how the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will be funding a lto fewer grants this year and next during her questioning of NIH director Jayanta Bhattacharya. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Getty Images

If you were told that you had to do hard work where you’d have about a one-in-ten chance of getting paid, would you do it? Well, those were the odds that scientific researchers in the U.S. had been facing for years when putting in all the blood, sweat and years that it takes to apply for National Institute of Health grants. The emphasis is on the words “had been” here as things have gotten, guess what, even worse this year.

Yep, those were the supposed “good old days” before U.S. President Donald Trump took office i

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