Posted on 04/24/2025 8:48:18 AM PDT by bitt
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months — putting crucial scientific advancements at risk.
The scientist, the 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Petrova, worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab until her arrest at a Boston airport in mid-February. She is now being held at ICE’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, Louisiana, and fighting possible deportation to Russia, where she said she fears persecution and jail time over her protests against the war in Ukraine.
“I would call it a grinding machine,” Petrova, who spoke with NBC News from the Louisiana facility, said about being detained. “We are in this machine, and it doesn’t care if you have a visa, a green card, or any particular story. ... It just keeps going.”
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. In fields where expertise is often highly specialized, the loss of talent could have dire consequences globally for the future of medicine and scientific discovery. Scientists and faculty members are planning to leave institutions across the country, legal experts said, because they’re worried that their visas could be revoked or that they could be swept up in immigration actions.
Petrova’s first immigration court hearing in Louisiana is scheduled for Tuesday morning. Her lawyer, Gregory Romanovsky, said that they expect to have more information on her asylum case after the hearing.
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NBC needs to have their license pulled. Yeah Trump is blocking the cure for Cancer.
Where's the disinformation czar when you really need one.
I’m trying to avoid NBC’s biases and look for more info about this ‘breakthrough’..
One immigrant is the only man in the entire nation that can do this? This is why no one believes the “news” any longer. Cmon man.
We’re doomed!
*woman
This is abc. Has it been fact checked yet?
Whoops! nbc. Same difference.
Can’t she telecommute from Russia?
I have an alternative theory; without her there to massage the data it might show that maybe she isn’t all of that.
Good grief, does the lying lamestream media actually expect those of us who actually have defendable STEM degrees to believe the bull Obama oozing out of their single digit IQ brains?
Maybe if they were not discriminating against White and Asian men there would be more people to do the analysis?
Honest to God, they never say anything nice. Never a teenie weenie smidgen. Each day is another day of hate and criticism 24/7.
One would think the democrats are all saints. No matter they lied about Joey, Ukraine, immigration and everything else for 4 years straight.
This is one reason people have caught on to the MSM as democrat activists and know their antics.
The bias and hate is too obvious to miss.
Woman
Something is amiss here. Why are we now just hearing about something that happened Feb 16? Also, note the use of the word “could” (e.g. “could change cancer diagnostics..”). That’s a weasel word because the statement after it is non-testable. People use weasel words when they are trying to make a point where none exists.
it trump blocked it, democrats aborted it.
“Can’t she telecommute from Russia?”
She is a personal non grata in Russia.
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