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Lab, Interrupted

All academic medical centers rest on a tripod—patient care, education and research. The effect of Hurricane Sandy on the third leg of that tripod—research—has gotten the least attention, partly because rescuing cell cultures just isn’t as dramatic as carrying an I.C.U. patient on a ventilator down flights of stairs in the dark. But, of course, there is an incontrovertible link between those cell cultures and that patient. More