Special freezer from Clarkson will be used to store COVID vaccines at CPH
Thursday, December 10, 2020 - 6:04 am POTSDAM — Clarkson has loaned one of its Ultra-Low Temperature (ULT) freezers to Canton-Potsdam Hospital to await the first arrivals of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. The vaccines must be stored at the ultra-cold temperature of -70 degrees Celsius, or about -94 Fahrenheit. Clarkson’s ULT freezer comes from Biology Professor Susan Bailey’s Experimental Evolution and Bioinformatics Lab. This freezer normally holds bacteria and DNA samples from her evolution experiments. “These experiments explore how bacteria evolve in response to dif...
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