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 ...

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 ...

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, according to a lawsuit filed ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Janitor who shut off lab freezer due to 'annoying' alarms ruined decades of research, college claims in suit More than 20 years of ...

A cleaner that turned off a lab freezer, that was reportedly too loud, has destroyed "decades of groundbreaking research".

A janitor at a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shut off an electrical breaker and accidentally destroyed 20 years of scientific research, a lawsuit says. Screengrab from Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... TROY, N.Y. (AP) — More than 20 years of cell cultures and other specimens stored at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute were destroyed when a cleaner ...

A university janitor accidentally turned off a super cold laboratory freezer after repeated "annoying alarms," resulting in the destruction of $1 million worth of scientific research, according to a ...