4 ms·
Cleaner accidentally ruins decades of research by turning off freezer
- pvaldes 3y agoCommon situation. Crammed labs and busy to death researchers fighting for each inch of freeze storage. They had a 25 years for splitting the irreplaceable samples into a backup copy. The problem is that spending time in management that does not produce papers is normally frowned upon and seen as procrastinating in science. A serious effort is still missing to introduce sample backups by routine on lab cultures and protocols.
- burning_hamster 3y agoThey are fighting for storage because funding agencies only pay for new research, not the preservation of old research funded by someone else.
- jryb 3y ago-80s aren't normally used as archives, rather they usually contain engineered strains of various organisms that would take a very long time to recreate.
- 1323portloo 3y agoHow did Covid restrictions prevent repairs to the system not prevent this cleaner from accessing the same area?