• BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
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    Yet all of that priceless data may soon be discarded due to President Donald Trump’s ongoing feud with Harvard

    Willett and his team were left scrambling to find the funds needed to protect freezers stocked with stool, urine and DNA specimens gathered from thousand of nurses for nearly five decades. Just the liquid nitrogen needed to keep the specimens frozen costs thousands of dollars a month.

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      Trump will destroy it because it’s icky stuff relating to women, and it serves to help women.

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        Now that I think about it, Harvard has what the biggest endowment in history by far? It’s peanuts for them to preserve it.