Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alleges it lost decades of scientific work because a custodian sought to stop 'annoying alarms' coming from lab that contained super-cold freezer.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute filed a million-dollar lawsuit against a cleaning company after a custodian, seeking to stop an"annoying" beep, allegedly turned off a lab freezer and killed decades of"groundbreaking" research.Cogswell Building
“The research had the potential to be groundbreaking,” the school's attorney wrote about the work of chemistry and chemical biologyThe freezer was allegedly set to sound if its temperature went up to -78 or down to -82. That alert went off Sept. 14, 2020, though Lakshmi and her team found cell samples to be safe at -78.meant no one could get there until Sept. 21, the lawsuit stated.
When research staff showed up the next day, they were stunned to find the freezer off and temperature up to catastrophically high -32, according to the lawsuit.
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