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Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

“Those worst affected are those researching leukaemia, they have gathered samples from patients over as much as 30 years,” he added.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I interned with a hematologist who was incredibly excited to show me a slide of hairy cell leukemia, the one case he'd seen in his career (like 20 years by then). That was just a microscope slide, I can't begin to imagine how bad the loss of research samples would be on someone.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Fucking tragic, especially since I imagine many of the patients have died.