Dozens of National Institutes of Health employees were laid off as part of a sweeping executive order implemented by the Trump administration - on the same day researchers published a 'remarkable' cancer treatment breakthrough. The timing stunned members of the scientific and medical community, who warned that the cuts will delay urgently needed care for cancer patients and slow the pace of research in a field already under strain. The layoffs, which affected both researchers and technical staff, were carried out on Tuesday just hours after Nature Medicine published a study by NIH scientists showing early success using personalized immunotherapy to shrink solid tumors in patients with colon, rectal, and other GI cancers. Read the full story on DailyMail.com. Link in bio. 📷 Getty Images #trump #science #cancerresearch #nih #news