The "Untouchables" of US Science

By Ed Pilkington
The Guardian UK
Friday 29 December 2006

When George Bush banned funding he effectively put researchers into a quarantine.

A bridge next to Kevin Eggan's laboratory overlooks one of the most concentrated square miles of scientific fire power in the world: North Yard, the science hub of Harvard. The bridge, a recent construction in glass and steel, was intended to facilitate collaboration between two research teams.