Like many laboratories at Johns Hopkins, the Elizabeth Jaffee Lab, which specializes in cancer immunotherapies, relies on ultra-low temperature freezers to store its samples. As part of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A janitor accidentally destroyed $1 million of scientific research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Hang Yu/Getty A janitor ...

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Professor K.V. Lakshmi feared her potentially groundbreaking research was in danger in September 2020 when a super-cold freezer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., went on the fritz ...

More than 1,500 ultra-low temperature lab freezers are maintained across Baltimore by Johns Hopkins University. Just a single one of these units can drain as much energy as a single-family home, ...

TROY, N.Y. (CNN) - More than 20 years of scientific research is down the drain. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate New York says a janitor turned off a lab freezer after hearing multiple ...

A lab worker at a vaccine research facility in Pennsylvania found a small number of frozen vials labeled "smallpox" in a freezer, the CDC said. Reading time 2 minutes A scenario ripe for a ...

TROY, N.Y.TROY, N.Y. — More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner switched off power to a lab freezer, ...

For scientists, a good freezer is like a good colleague: integral to doing your best work. But cooling comes at a great cost. Ultra-low temperature freezers, which usually store samples at –80°C, can ...

INFORMATION. FEDERAL HEALTH OFFICIALS HAVE CONFIRMED THE DISCOVERY OF SOME FROZEN VLSIA LABELED SMALLPOX IN A FREEZER AT A MERC FILACITY IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY. THE CDC SAID THE VIALS WERE INCIDENTALLY ...

A janitor destroyed $1 million in scientific research after turning off a super cold freezer in a lab. He had heard "annoying alarms" coming from the freezer where over 20 years of research were ...