Frozen samples from Marseille hospitals, a gold mine for medical analysis | EUROtoday
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Dn the basement of the Paoli-Calmettes Institute in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), Didier Bechlian lifts the heavy lid of a tank of liquid nitrogen. The white, dense cloud that escapes immediately envelops his face sheltered behind a big visor. With a certain gesture, he plunges his palms protected by cryogenic gloves into this opaque and icy fog and pulls out an extended steel field during which twelve bins lined with frost are stacked.
Inside are a string of completely aligned and hermetically sealed plastic tubes. Each preserves a couple of milliliters of blood, a couple of sq. millimeters of a tumor or a couple of milligrams of human tissue. An unimaginable assortment of cells petrified by an environment near absolute zero…
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