On Monday (February 28), the fifth day of Russia’s military assault on Ukraine, Alla Mironenko—a physician-scientist and virologist and head of the Influenza Laboratory Ukrainian Center of Influenza and Acute Respiratory Infections Ministry of Health in Kyiv, Ukraine—drove the five kilometers to her laboratory with her husband. “I usually walk, but it is not possible now,” she told The Scientist by telephone later that day. A lone security guard let her in the laboratory building. The laboratories were empty, the heat turned off. Mironenko’s husband waited for her while she did a sweep of the lab. Although the lab does quite a bit of cell culture work, luckily, at the moment, they didn’t have any cells growing. Mironenko checked that the laboratory was in order, closed all of the windows, watered the plants in her office and those of her colleagues, and unplugged the centrifuges and other instruments.
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