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Off Topic => The Pub => Topic started by: David Martin on 11 October, 2009, 01:21:46 pm

Title: Bah, Humbug. Why let the americans do it when we could have done it years ago?
Post by: David Martin on 11 October, 2009, 01:21:46 pm
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Royal blood disorder identified (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8297467.stm)

We had been trying to get access to these samples for at least 15 years as we (the lab where I did my PhD)  were one of the top Haemophilia labs in UK. The question was always which of the two types (A or B) the Romanovs had as the clinical records and manifestations are identical (under pre second world war medicine anyhow).

And now the americans have done it instead. Grump.

..d