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Research Sabotage

By LIFS November 8, 2010 at 7:39 PM
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An Indian post graduate student at the University of Michigan’s Comprehensive Cancer Center has been convicted of sabotaging the experiments of a colleague out of jealousy. Over several months in early 2010, Vipul Bhrigu poisoned the cell-culture media of a graduate student Heather Ames in his lab in an effort to slow down her work. He told Nature magazine, “I just got jealous of others moving ahead and I wanted to slow them down.”

Bhrigu confessed to university police in April after he was confronted with hidden camera images showing him spiking her cultures. University policy installed the cameras after Ames came to them with her suspicions. Ames says she was surprised to discover that Bhrigu was the culprit, “He was one of the last people I would have suspected didn’t like me.”

 

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