Decades of research destroyed after freezer fails at Swedish university

Estimated value of the samples thought to be in the millions as incident reported to police

Research samples collected over decades at a Swedish medical university were destroyed when a freezer malfunctioned during the Christmas holidays, the institute has said.

The samples were stored in tanks cooled with liquid nitrogen, at a temperature of -190C, at Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm. Continue reading...


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