STAT+: Young scientists say they may abandon research as their career options shrink amid Trump cuts
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Becks Padrusch\u2018s fondest memories growing up were of trips to\u00a0Boston\u2019s Museum of Science<\/a>, where the Arlington native got to touch animal organs and watch with fascination as chickens hatched in incubators. As a toddler, Padrusch, who uses they\/them pronouns, insisted on bedtime stories about the solar system and how the planets formed.<\/p>\n By age 5, Padrusch knew they wanted to be a scientist.<\/p>\n So Padrusch felt overjoyed when they received an offer to work at a\u00a0UMass Chan Medical School genetics laboratory<\/a>, studying how organisms evolve and react to molecules. \u201cIt felt like paradise,\u201d said Padrusch, a research associate at the Worcester lab. \u201cI felt that same sense of wonder that I did as a child.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n