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Research losses surface in hurricane Katrina's aftermath

Nature Medicine volume 11, page 1015 (2005)Cite this article

Scientists are scrambling to assess the long-term damage.

When hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on 29 August, Wai-Choi Leung, a pathologist at the Tulane Cancer Center, stayed on campus, determined to save his department's frozen cells and tissue samples. But the next day, when flood waters seeped into the building and shut down emergency generators, he realized his efforts might be futile.

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