Re: ( Labs) - was Crohn's remedies

[Guest guest]

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Yah. Having worked (in Labs) most of my career in R & D with the

best equipment money can buy - then seeing R & D funds cut- then slashed-

then gone - it's sad in my eyes.

I love looking at tiny things in a big scanning electron microscope.

Those days are gone (for me anyway)..

Barb

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> People at drug firms have sick family like anyone... my guess is they

> want to see the cures come down as much as any of us. Unfortunately,

> right now (likewise for the past decade or two), it's almost

> exquisitely difficult to get yourself a lab in either biomed industry

> or academia. One false move and you're out of the running. This leads

> to a terrible scientific conservatism. Don't mess up! Even once you

get

> academic tenure or a job at one of the large firms

[Guest guest]

We need another Sputnik! Apparantly that gave USA/NATO science a real

kick in the butt.

And these days, everything is soooo advanced and expensive. Back in

the times you bought glassware, microscopes, and mice. If you wanted

to do biology research, all you had to do was become a professor at

some small college, and I have one contemporary testimony that it

wasn't very hard to do that.

One of my bosses, who looks about 62, remembers the pre-NIH days. He

says no one really thought of applying for grants, and there

basically weren't any, and that labs just bought glass and such with

a little $100 stipend... I guess from the college or whatever.

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> Yah. Having worked (in Labs) most of my career in R & D with

the

> best equipment money can buy - then seeing R & D funds cut- then

slashed-

> then gone - it's sad in my eyes.

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> I love looking at tiny things in a big scanning electron

microscope.

> Those days are gone (for me anyway)..

> Barb

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