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Brains thaw at Harvard repository
It’s a scientist’s nightmare come true. Molecular information stored within 147 brains was lost when a freezer failed at Harvard’s brain bank at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. Two alarm systems monitored the freezer’s temperature, but clearly, that wasn’t enough.
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