Not many nightmare scenarios grip Kristala Jones Prather’s imagination. But one that haunted her for a long time involved the –80 °C freezer in her Massachusetts Institute of Technology lab. Freezer ...

Like many laboratories at Johns Hopkins, the Elizabeth Jaffee Lab, which specializes in cancer immunotherapies, relies on ultra-low temperature freezers to store its samples. As part of the ...

A janitor accidentally destroyed $1 million of scientific research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.Hang Yu/Getty A janitor destroyed $1 million in scientific research after turning off a super ...

A janitor destroyed $1 million in scientific research after turning off a super cold freezer in a lab. He had heard "annoying alarms" coming from the freezer where over 20 years of research were ...

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 ...

The Luger Lab, a Biocemistry lab headed by PI Karolin Luger, has won the CU Boulder Freezer Challenge, put on by CU Green Labs. The CU Boulder competition happened in conjunction with the ...