Petrova’s case and the detention of academics across the country has damaged the ability of universities in the United States to recruit and retain leading talent, experts and Petrova’s colleagues said. Dr. Leon Peshkin, a principal research scientist at Harvard’s Department of Systems Biology and Petrova’s manager and mentor, received a call from Customs and Border Protection on Feb. 16 after agents detained Petrova at Logan International Airport in Boston for failing to declare samples of frog embryos to be used in scientific research. Petrova doesn’t see herself that way — she’s just passionate about the work and her team, and told NBC News in interviews over video link that she thinks the job at the Kirschner lab was “a miracle.”
Author: Jean Lee
Published at: 2025-04-21 21:34:39
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