Funding cut puts UNM specimen collection at risk

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A museum at the University of New Mexico maintains the world’s largest archive of frozen tissue samples, but a recent National Science Foundation decision put the specimens at risk.
The Albuquerque Journal reports that the NSF last month indefinitely suspended a program that funds maintenance of biological research collections like the half-million specimens at UNM’s Museum of Southwestern Biology.
Scientists argue that such collections enable a wi