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Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 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.