Harvard’s Don Ingber relies largely on federal funding for his work identifying new therapies using what he calls “organs-on-chips”; this breakthrough technology can replace animal testing. Federal grants have made up almost half the university’s research funding. Ingber and other scientists told 60 Minutes that government support of university research - now under threat - is what has powered America’s scientific supremacy in the world. “We are truly putting the brakes on scientific innovation in this country at a time when our ostensible adversary, China, is just going faster and faster and faster,” says Ingber. “If we can’t be the leader, we’re going to be the follower.” #harvard #uspolitics #federalgrants #research #scienceresearch