Too Few University Jobs For America’s Young Scientists

Imagine a job where about half of all the work is being done by people who are in training. That’s, in fact, what happens in the world of biological and medical research.

In the United States, more than 40,000 temporary employees known as postdoctoral research fellows are doing science at a bargain price. And most postdocs are being trained for jobs that don’t actually exist.

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