Harvard chemist and molecular biologist David Liu invented gene editing tools that can correct and rewrite defective genes. His research could one day help hundreds of millions of people with genetic diseases, including sickle cell and muscular dystrophy.

Somehow you failed to mention that Harvard has a $56.9 billion endowment. Yet, they still want to cry about not getting any of our taxpayer dollars.

Why is @60Minutes gaslighting PRIVATE schools not getting federal funding for research? The most recent official value of Harvard’s endowment released in Harvard’s annual financial report in October 2025 and confirmed across sources including Reuters, Harvard Magazine, Forbes, The Harvard Crimson, and HMC’s own site is $56.9 billion. It remains the largest university endowment worldwide. Note that some outlets (e.g., The New York Times) round it to “nearly $57 billion,” but the precise amount is $56.9 billion.

If they're SO CLOSE to cures, I'd think Harvard would spend more of it's own $BILLIONS on continued research. And, yet, they do not.

Patients are getting cured every week now. It’s an amazing time to be alive!

Didn't Trump try to distort money from Harvard by blocking government grants? Well, yes he did....that's how abhorrent and harmful he is!

Another Harvard scientist crying poor. Harvard has $53 billion in their endowment. May, just maybe they can fund their own research. We’re broke!

Now do DCVax. Truly mind-boggling. $nwbo

Harvard has billions in it's endowment. Use that money, nitwits

Are you as appalled as I am that Harvard refuses to use its billions in endowments to find this important research after refusing federal funds due to their requirements? Harvard is evil.

Every farmer I know supports Trump and the tariffs. You are an enemy to the people.

Sickle cell doesn't need a cure.

@Harvard @Harvardmed Dean George Daley committed scientific misconduct on iPSC fraud and lied in Congress by saying that “iPSC and hESC are identical”, which is like saying “cancer cells and stem cells are identical.” @Harvard have several shocking high-profile scientific misconduct cases like @HarvardPresident Claudine Gay. Maybe @Harvard @Harvardmed should clean its own house. The 2012 Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamnaka’s induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) of @ISSCR are in fact cancer cells reprogrammed with oncogenes, a massive scientific fraud and adult stem cell scam endorsed by the Nobel committee with @NobelPrize. It has been 20 years, and every single one of former and current @ISSCR officials and those on the Nobel committee know iPSC are cancer cells reprogrammed with oncogenes, an adult stem cell scam, and massive fraud and waste. If any one of you have any scientific integrity, please stop lying. Grow some spine. Be the true leaders of stem cell research. Don’t bend science to politics. Don’t sacrifice research integrity for profit, funding, or @NobelPrize. PS. Lorene Studer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Bayer/Bluerock Therapeutics was actually found scientific misconduct by plagiarizing/publishing our large primate PD study data in his 2011 Nature paper and using faked data in his NIH grants applications that resulted in termination of his NIH grants about 10 years ago, and he has continued to fake data in his iPSC publications (e.g., iPSC-derived schwann cells and neurons with Faranak Fattahi of UCSF). He doesn’t have the scientific integrity to be the President of ISSCR. Please see below my post about the iPSC lie of @ISSCR, more at Google AI is caught lying about the fact that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are cancer cells It is an undeniable scientific fact that induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are adult cells reprogrammed with oncogenes or cancer cells harboring oncogenes (the scientific term for cancers is reprogramming), an adult stem cell Ponzi scheme or scam created by the opponents of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research during the Bush Administration, which has resulted in “the massive fraud and waste of the Obama Administration” that was under Congressional and HHS investigations. However, for over a decade, both Nobel committee @NobelPrize and HHS/NIH @HHSGov @HHSResponse @HHS_Jim @Seckennedy have refused to acknowledge that iPSC is a scientific fraud and in fact cancer cells. There are a lot of lies about iPSC on the internet, which could be easily caught withsome interesting contradicted answers from Google AI. Please see below some interesting contradicted answers from Google AI. No wonder there are so many fake news on google. Q1: Do induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) contain oncogenes? Google AI Answer 1: Yes, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) contain oncogenes because the process of creating them often involves using oncogenes or genes that are linked to tumorigenesis. Key reprogramming factors like c-Myc and Klf4 are well-known oncogenes, and others like Oct4 and Sox2 also have links to tumor formation. While these genes are necessary for reprogramming, their presence means iPSCs inherently carry an oncogenic risk that must be addressed, particularly for clinical applications. Q2: Is a cell containing an oncogene a cancer cell? Google AI Answer 2: Yes, a cell containing an oncogene is considered a cancer cell because oncogenes are mutated genes that drive uncontrolled cell growth and division, and an oncogene can cause the cell to become cancerous. Q3: Are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) cancer cells? Google AI Answer 3: No, normal iPSCs are not cancer cells, though they share some properties with cancer stem cells that are cancer cells, and iPSCs can be reprogrammed to become cancer-like cells. A key difference is that normal iPSCs have the potential for controlled differentiation into various cell types, whereas cancer cells often lack this control, leading to uncontrolled growth. I was shadow banned on social media since 2012 for speaking about 2012 Nobel Prize winner Shinya Yamnaka’s scientific fraud on iPSC, in fact cancer cells reprogramed with oncogenes and common scientific knowledge. Shinya Yamanaka and Deepak Srivastava of UCSF who directed the NIH iPSC Center grant in collaboration with MIT reprogramming professor Rudy Jaenisch, the founder of the iPSC Company Fate therapeutics and ISSCR former President, were found scientific misconduct that resulted in termination of their NIH iPSC grants over 10 years ago. @HarvardMed Harvard Medical School Dean George Daley lied in Congress that “iPSC and hESC are identical”, which is like saying “cancer cells and stem cells are identical”. In Sept 2021, NIH director Francis Collins suddenly resigned for having knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly misappropriated tens of billions of NIH grants to iPSC scam. Obama held a farewell party for Francis Collins and had Biden/Harris white house stop HHS/NIH from making formal announcement for Francis Collins’ wrong doing. In January 2022, Biden white house science advisor Eric Lander resigned for his scientific misconduct in iPSC, which they covered up as staff dispute. @realDonaldTrump @POTUS @WhiteHouse @RapidResponse47 signed EO to eliminate fraud and waste @DOGECommittee @DOGE. However, NIH not only do not eliminate billions of existing iPSC fraud and waste of previous Biden/Harris administration, but also continue to knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly misappropriate taxpayer money to more iPSC fraud and waste of former NIH director Francis Collins against President Trump EO and priorities. Eliezer Masliah Alzheimer scientific misconduct is all over the news, but NIH continue to waste taxpayer money by knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly misappropriating hundreds of millions of awards to his associates and his company all based on his scientific fraud against President Trump’s EO and priorities. One well-known scientific fact about cancers is that cancer cells have lost their ability to differentiate. There is no possible scientific way to turn iPSC into any normal human functional cells, such as neurons, astrocytes, cardiomyocytes; the only way to do it is by falsifying and fabricating data against the code of scientific conduct. There are enormous amount of gross iPSC data manipulation, misrepresentation, fabrication, and falsification against the code of scientific conduct, including Alysson Muotri of UCSD, Joseph Wu of Stanford University, Arnold Kriegstein of UCSF, George Daley of @Harvard, Fred Gage of Salk Institute, and ARPA-h FRONT Program manager Jean Hebert, that have contributed to the replication crisis and skyrocketing biomedical paper retractions, indicating a lot of government research funding is being wasted. However, last month, @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay still knowingly, intentionally, and recklessly misappropriated $87 million of NIH grants to Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research for gain-of-function research on cancer-causing iPSC based organoids of NCI and NIAID, the same lab where Fauci and Francis Collins manufactured their cancer-causing mRNA vaccines leading to turbo cancer we see today, and turbocharged $50 million into 13 projects on fruitless genetic drivers of autism, including iPSC awards, in coordination with CA CIRM round of iPSC awards at exactly the same time (CIRM chair is a close ally and friend of Obama and Gavin Newsom). The 13 autism projects chosen by NIH so-called peer reviewers are absolutely not the best among 250 applications, probably even the worst. But all the 13 chosen projects have one thing in common, the NIH so-called peer reviewers all have conflicts of interest (COI) with those 13 projects they chose. The very corrupt NIH acting director Nicole Kleinstreuer selected those bureaucratic autism awards without any competitive scientific peer review and transparency by having personally picked so-called NIH peer reviewers who all have COI to those 13 projects they chose behind closed doors. The PIs of 5 NIH autism awards, including AL Cochran of University of Wisconsin-Madison, ZD Liu of Baylor College of Medicine, JS Miller of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, DI Walker of Emory University, HJ Zhong of Weill Medical College of Cornell University have absolutely no scientific publication at all, and JL Stein of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has only 2 middle author publications but no first or last author publication. NIH grant application requires PI’s own work, those 6 PIs have no publication or their own work for their applications, so they must all have committed scientific misconduct by plagiarizing someone else’s work against NIH grants and research integrity policies. None of those 6 PIs have any experience or expertise in autism or related studies, what make those 6 PIs stand out against other 250 PIs and their proposals that actually address the root causes of autism? DH Geschwind of University of California Los Angeles and WK Chung of Boston Children’s Hospital are on the same team with redundant awards. J Sebat of University of California, San Diego and JL Stein of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill used iPSC and faked data in their grant applications against NIH grants and research integrity policies. How could NIH call those PIs and their projects who have neither scientific credentials nor research integrity as their best if NIH peer review system is not corrupt? Or NIH is actually telling the public the truth that NIH is so corrupt that their peer reviewers could only choose those projects without scientific credentials and research integrity as their best projects. Could anyone with little common sense really believe “cancer cells and stem cells are identical”, let alone Dean of Harvard Medical School, and all the NIH peer reviewers and scientists who claim they are experts and have scientific integrity? Could anyone with little common sense call such deceptive NIH and CIRM fraud and waste awards without scientific credentials and research integrity as “Gold Standard Science”? Why wouldn’t NIH acting director Nicole Kleinstreuer even mention iPSC in recent $87 million iPSC center award and $50 million autism awards? Why would Dr. Bhattacharya hide from the public that he has shared his commitment with Jeffery Taubenberger of NIAID to actually fund dangerous GOF research? Why would NIH coordinate with Obama and Gavin Newsom in CA for its dangerous GOF awards under the leadership of a Trump political appointee from Stanford University of CA where Moderna was founded and mRNA vaccine was awarded the Nobel Prize?

Where do these researchers go? Who’s paying them to do what? So they know if they work for him they will save millions of lives, but they choose to walk away because there’s not enough money in it for them? They must be terrible people

Harvard is sitting on 56 billion endowment funds - you’d think they could temporarily fund the one million for continued breast cancer research and other necessary research projects for one year and negotiate with the administration to get the previous funding back.

better get busy with the vaccinated in this country. The news is concerning to say the least.

Or genetic edited human are coming

Too bad Harvard is so woke.

So Explain why Harvard is not using it's endowment and instead trying to fleece American taxpayers??? The federal government should not be funding these elitist with tax dollars taken from hard working lower income Americans

Isn’t this the guy who weaponized ticks to make Americans deathly allergic to meat & stunt their growth to shrink their carbon footprint?

Fuck Harvard and fuck 60 Minutes.

In fiscal year 2025, Harvard University's endowment reached a value of $56.9 billion, an increase of 11.9% from the previous year. This growth was driven by strong investment returns

Again, how much is Harvard's endowment?

Use Harvard’s endowment David.

Think of all the street cred @harvard would have if they funded this!

Excellent, Harvard should fund this themselves, for the greater good.

This could never be misused. Whew!

words to say about this Chinese American's work? After you've denigrated the Chinese Americans in your rant against this demographic? Nvidia, founder Jensen Huang. Nvidia is the leading graphic process and chip maker market cap at $4.39 Trn. Yahoo, cofounder Jerry Yang Zoom, Eric Yuan Rotten Tomatoes founded by Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Steven Wang Zappos, Tony Hsieh YouTube, cofounder Steve Chen Twitch, Justin Kan Door Dash Tony Xu, Andy Fang, Stanley Tang, and Evan Moore VMware, cogounder Edward Wang ATI Technology bought by AMD, cofounder Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau, and Kwok Yuen Ho Pinterest, Ben Silbermann (mother is Chinese) Linksys founded by Victor Tsao and Janie Newegg, Fred Chang Vizio, William Wang Coursera, cofounder Andrew Ng, Garmin, co founder Min H. Kao Disqus, Daniel Ha and Jason Yan An Wang founded Wang Lab, which played a pivotal role in moving our country into the word processing era. Then we have the Nobel laureates Physics: Tsung-Dao Lee (1957), Samuel C. C. Ting (1976), and Steven Chu (1997), and Daniel C. Tsui (1998). Nobel laureates in Chemistry: Roger Y. Tsien (2008), Charles K. Kao (2009). This should get you guys started.

and if this administration has anything to do with it...they'll defund that research, deport him (whether he's a citizen or not) and then sue Harvard for bogus reasons for more money to put into donald's pockets

Superintelligence will drive groundbreaking advances in biology. As Jensen Huang described the AI revolution, it signifies that Superintelligence is poised to achieve some of the greatest biological breakthroughs, marking one of the most important evolutions in human history.

‼️👀 The often used phrase: TRUST THE SCIENCE ⛔️ Based on their performance, I don’t trust the scientists. They, by the actions, have proven themselves to be untrustworthy‼️

Didn't Trump win that same award? Oh no, he won the Noble Peace price. That and many golf tournaments.

Amazing but why send it overseas when American taxes have funded much of the research???