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17 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Ok @nytimes, I ran around correcting a bunch of racists inspired by your clickbait headline and now have to go back to work on my grant proposal. For the last time: HAMSTER OVARY CELL LINES USED TO MAKE PROTEINS WERE DEVELOPED IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1957
Specifically it was developed by a white guy at Univ of Colorado who cultured the original cells from a hamster living in a Boston lab. In rodent years that hamster is practically a freaking Pilgrim.

Its cells are now used all over the world. From the US.
google.com/amp/s/cellcult…
So you think it’s okay that your headline made readers suspect that Chinese doctors are over there doing sketchy things to girl hamsters? TODAY?

Here’s the man who developed the Chinese hamster ovarian tissue line:
More history on the Chinese hamster ovary cell line here: handling-solutions.eppendorf.com/cell-handling/…

Thanks to @labbylamb for alerting me to this headline. And to @luckytran who shows us all the way forward.

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Fantastic new explainer from ⁦@KateAronoff⁩ on the rising price of gas at the pump and the economic and political forces swirling around it

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Sometimes salvation is delivered inside brutalist architecture with the Army National Guard running logistics.

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