Core facilities
Core Concept
24/08/12 13:00 Filed in: GenomeWeb Daily Scan
Richard Wintle from the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto described how core lab scientists allow for efficient and cost-effective research. S. Pelech concurs that the establishment of core facilities for undertaking specialized analyses that require expensive equipment, specialized reagents and high expertise can make a lot of financial sense, especially because this minimizes redundancies in resources for biomedical research. However, such core facilities are often under utilized, because there are still significant cost barriers to accessing their services for the vast majority of university and small biotech company scientists. Local research scientists could benefit from core facilities and adopt the new technologies to take their research to higher levels if the cost of accessing these core facilities was much cheaper for academic and industrial researchers from the same area from which the government funding was procured. Read More...