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Published online 26 March 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452398c
Valuable bacterial archive destroyed
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A very disturbing situation, on several levels. Is it known that the samples are actually destroyed? -- rather than, for example, stolen, or sampled before apparent destruction? One does indeed hope for full investigation, and further articles on the subject in Nature. Donivan Bessinger
The laboratory head was Victor Yu, not Vincent.