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Unfortunately the main story appears to be under a "Science" pay wall. Here is a commentary and short summary on the disturbing event.
http://observationdeck.io9.com/holy-****-this-sabotage-story-is-the-stuff-of-researc-1538150751
http://observationdeck.io9.com/holy-****-this-sabotage-story-is-the-stuff-of-researc-1538150751
Koziol's studies of how the genome switches on after an egg is fertilized had begun failing mysteriously in July 2011, a month after she started her postdoc in the developmental biology lab of Antonio Giraldez. In August, she began producing transgenic zebrafish; they all died, not once, but time after time. A lab technician assured her she was doing everything right, and colleagues' fish were fine. So Koziol produced a new batch of fish and divided them in two groups. One she put in a container labeled with her initials, MK, as she had done before. She left the other half unmarked. Sure enough, the labeled fish died; the others were fine...
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