this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
131 points (99.2% liked)

Science

3155 readers
1 users here now

General discussions about "science" itself

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:

https://lemmy.ml/c/science

https://beehaw.org/c/science

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Sal@mander.xyz
fossilesque@mander.xyz
131
Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/science@mander.xyz
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 55 points 9 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.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago

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

[–] 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.