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Apr 2025
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How Frog Embryos Landed a Scientist in I...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL & GIMLET
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Earlier this year, Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova landed at Boston Logan Airport with samples of frog embryos in her luggage. Those samples cost Petrova her visa and kickstarted an asylum claim that landed her in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana. WSJ’s Michelle Hackman explains that Petrova’s case represents an aggressive shift in the Trump administ ... Show More
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