Sandy destroys medical research
Medical Research Miracle by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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When the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center lost power as Sandy buffeted New York on Monday evening, the back-up power generators malfunctioned and the healthcare facility was required to evacuate around 300 patients to surrounding hospitals. The patients were conserved, however the power outage left one of the medical center's pet research facilities in the dark, and the New York Daily News reported that hundreds of lab mice may have sunk, leading to the loss of years of research, cell societies and tissues that needed to be deserted in failing incubators. The Smilow Research Center, one of NYU's three pet research facilities, lost one-of-a-kind strains of mice when the power outage restricted access to the 13th floor research center, ABC News reported. The center held specimens important to NYU scientists ' research in heart disease, cancer and neurodegeneration.
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Ravi Tolwani
Overall Sentiment: -0.309219
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| -0.19575 | "We feel badly for the mice and for the science that was disrupted and The Rockefeller University is obviously committed to helping NYU scientists in this difficult time," says Ravi Tolwani, ... |
| -0.0992502 | "When we modify mice to modify genes, those modifications made are unique to that specific mouse strain. That may be the only mouse strain that's available for a specific genetic defect in the world," says Tolwani. |
| -0.163088 | "When we modify mice to modify genes, those modifications made are unique to that specific mouse strain. That may be the only mouse strain that's available for a specific genetic defect in the world," says Tolwani. "Those mice are not replaceable, or they're not very easy to replace. The effort to actually generate those mice is lost, and whatever science has been done on those mice is stopped." |
| -0.343508 | "It's devastating," says Tolwani. |
| -0.104098 | "It's devastating," says Tolwani. "Science is a very competitive field, and it is rapidly advancing. Even reproducing those strains and having to wait to use them is devastating to their science because research advances very quickly. You can imagine that scientists' lives are actually disrupted." |
| -0.0980325 | "Before the science on these mice is published, there will not be as much sharing. I would guess that the majority of the mice were not shared with other investigators. Therefore those mouse strains were lost," he says. ... |
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Sandy
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Dr. Michelle Krogsgaard
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Company: Time Inc
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