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Purification of Viral DNA for the Identification of Associated Viral and Cellular Proteins
Published on: August 31, 2017
Destruction of isolates from the Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs Laboratory
David R Snydman1, Elias J Anaissie, George A Sarosi
1Department of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. DSnydman@tufts-nem.org
Abstract:
The Pittsburgh Veterans Affairs hospital administration closed the research laboratory directed by Victor Yu and Janet Stout and destroyed isolates collected as part of a series of clinical studies over 25 years. This article discusses the implications and protests such destruction as an affront to science and scientific study. A petition signed by 243 individuals accompanies this article.

