美国封锁重创古巴医疗与科研

Hospitals and researchers struggle to cope with lengthy blackouts and supply shortages RICHARD STONE As oil runs short, power cuts have idled labs and darkened the streets of Havana. Cuban scientists are known for ingenuity in the face of adversity. Over the years, as U.S. sanctions coupled with government mismanagement worsened the island’s economic woes, Kalet León Monzón and his colleagues at the Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Havana continued to develop and produce monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, resorting to clever workarounds such as retrofitting old instrumentation and what he calls “nontraditional ways” of importing reagents. But months into a de facto oil blockade imposed by the United States, CIM’s R&D director is at his wits’ end. …