From killing lab mice to tearing down buildings, threatened federal grant cuts loom large at major r

(8 Mar 2025)
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Durham, North Carolina – 4 March 2025
1. Various of students working in lab
2. Tight of lab equipment
3. Wide of lab head Donald McDonnell with colleague (NATS): "We had a meeting this morning. Right? About how we’re going to have to kill a lot of our mouse lines, because we’ve got to stay absolutely strictly focused on, you know, the major questions. We can’t wander."
4. Various of lab worker

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ARCHIVE: Bethesda, Maryland – 22 February 2025
5. Wide of people passing National Institutes of Health building

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Durham, North Carolina – 4 March 2025
6. Various of entrance to Duke School of Medicine research building
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald McDonnell, Cancer Specialist, Duke University :
"I’m a very, very positive person. You know, I’m really a glass half full. I’ve got to say, the mood around here is not that great right now.”
8. Wide elevated panning shot of Duke campus
9. Wide of spires of Duke Chapel

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ARCHIVE: Washington – 21 February 2025
10. Mid of people protesting science funding freeze

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Durham, North Carolina – 4 March 2025
11. Various of Duke Cancer Center and other medical buildings
12. Wide of Executive Vice Dean Colin Duckett walking down hallway
13. Mid of scribblings on whiteboard
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Colin Duckett, Executive Vice Dean:
"If we get a reduction in rate, we have to make decisions across the whole institution about how many buildings we can have, how big we can be. And, so, buildings like this will have to be knocked down, instead of renovated."
15. Various of geneticist Beth Sullivan at microscope
16. Tight of cells on computer screen
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Sullivan, Dept. of Molecular Genetics:
"Basically, we look at human diseases that have some sort of chromosome abnormality associated with them."
18. Wide of Sullivan in lab
19. Tight of white lab coats on hooks
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Sullivan, Dept. of Molecular Genetics:
"There’s a lot of uncertainty around how many students can we actually bring in to the new class."
21. Wide of lab bench with equipment
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22. SOUNDBITE (English) Beth Sullivan, Dept. of Molecular Genetics:
"Our next generation of researchers are now poised on the edge of this cliff, not knowing if there’s going to be a bridge that’s going to get them to the other side. Or if, like, this is it. We’re at the edge of the cliff."
23. Wide shot though window with stonework
24. Various of graduate student Caleb McIver working at computer
25. SOUNDBITE (English), Caleb McIver, Third-Year Doctoral Student:
“Pretty stressed. I mean, we need, I need funding. So, we’ve got to find it.”
26. Various of entrance to mobility, sensory and cognitive health lab
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27. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Heather Whitson, Professor of Neuroscience:
"What worries me is that, the sort of sledgehammer approach."
28. Wide of lab head Heather Whitson showing exam room
29. Tight of receptacle for used needles
30. Wide of Whitson standing at end of walking grid
31. Mid of orange traffic cone with wheelchair in background
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32. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Heather Whitson, Professor in Neuroscience:
“I sort of think of biomedical research as the patient. It’s an important patient. We all want to save it. We all agree on the diagnosis that there’s some waste and inefficiency. I worry that the treatment that has been proposed is going to kill the patient rather than treat the disease."
33. Various of scale against wall

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