Lab critical to medical device development ‘DOGEd’

The Atomic Spectroscopy Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which provides definitive measurements integral to developing biomedical instrumentation that helps diagnose health conditions and advancing microchips, will close in a few weeks as part of NIST-wide eliminations.

However, a new campaign aimed to express to the Trump administration how detrimental this would be to advancing medical care has garnered the attention and support of scientists worldwide....