{"id":796,"date":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/when-natural-disasters-strike-tragedy-can-unfold-in-the-lab-subscription.html"},"modified":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:00:00","slug":"when_natural_disasters_strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/when_natural_disasters_strike.html","title":{"rendered":"When natural disasters strike, tragedy can unfold in the lab (subscription)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Cassandra Willyard<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"tulane.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/files\/tulane.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\" border=\"0\" headspace=\"10px\" align=\"right\"\/> When Laura Levy returned to her laboratory in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there was nothing to suggest that a violent storm had pummeled the city.  On the fifth floor of the Tulane University School of Medicine, where Levy&#8217;s lab sits, most things were in their proper place. \u201cIt was really most peculiar,\u201d she says. The laboratories, she adds, \u201clooked just as they looked the day we left.\u201d <em>(Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/v16\/n6\/full\/nm0610-616.html\">here<\/a> to continue reading)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Image: David J. Phillip\/<span class=\"caps\">AFP<\/span>\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cassandra Willyard When Laura Levy returned to her laboratory in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, there was nothing to suggest that a violent storm had pummeled the city. On the fifth floor of the Tulane University School of Medicine, where Levy&#8217;s lab sits, most things were in their proper place. \u201cIt was really most peculiar,\u201d she says. The laboratories, she adds, \u201clooked just as they looked the day we left.\u201d (Click here to continue reading) Image: David J. Phillip\/AFP\/Getty Images&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/when_natural_disasters_strike.html#wpn-more-796\" class=\"more-link\"> &hellip; Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2010\/06\/when_natural_disasters_strike.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}