New Orleans researchers fight to salvage work from submerged labs

[摘要] Hurricane Katrina has devastated research laboratories in New Orleans. Rescue teams discovered that many frozen specimens and cell cultures had thawed, making them useless, some projects however have been saved by academic rescue teamgoing into flooded buildings and topping up dewars of liquid nitrogen to keepspecimens cold. Scientists have moved as far as California to maintain their projects after the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.