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Storm shows need for mouse backup, but costs present challenges

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In June 2001, pathologist David Roth was set to leave for a sabbatical in England, when Hurricane Allison swept into town. The massive storm interrupted not only his trip but also his career. As rainwater flooded into Roth's lab at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, his collection of genetically modified mice became a casualty of the storm. Valuable reagents were destroyed, too.

After assessing the research lost, Roth decided his best option was simply to start anew elsewhere. “If you lose everything, you're at least a couple of years behind,” he says. The next year, he found a fresh start at the New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center where he climbed the ranks to become director of the medical scientist training program.

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  • 22 March 2013

     In the December 2012 issue, the article entitled “Amgen Storm shows need for mouse backup, but costs present challenges” (Nat. Med. 18, 1724, 2012) incorrectly referred to the price of freezing per embryo as $1,000 to $4,000, when in fact this cost refers to the price of freezing per mouse line. The error has been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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