US Nobel laureate fears US politics could undermine science
(WorldNews Japan)

STOCKHOLM (AP) - An American scientist who shared this year´s Nobel Prize for medicine bluntly criticized political developments at home in his address at the awards´ gala banquet, saying that U.S. scientists are facing funding cutbacks that will hurt research. Michael Rosbash, who was honored for his work on circadian rhythms - commonly called the body clock - expressed concern that U.S. government funding such as that received by him and Nobel colleagues Jeffrey Hall and Michael Young is endangered. `We benefited from an enlightened period in the postwar United States. Our National Institutes of...