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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2001 93(18):1366-1367; doi:10.1093/jnci/93.18.1366
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 93, No. 18, 1366-1367, September 19, 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

NEWS

Tropical Storm Sets Back Research in Houston

Charles Bankhead

Years of valuable cancer research vanished into the murky flood waters that raged through Houston’s Texas Medical Center in June.

Although precise estimates of the loss in research time and materials remain hard to come by, the impact on individual research programs ranges from a few months to as much as 10 years of lost work.

"I don’t doubt that at all," Joan Bull, M.D., professor of medicine and director of the oncology division at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, said of estimates that some researchers were set back 10 years by the disaster. "That’s not true in my case, but I know of some people who lost transgenic animals, cell lines, data—everything."

Bull lost a couple of long-term laboratory studies that began in December 2000.

The flooding . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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