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Institutional core facilities: prerequisite for breakthroughs in the life sciences
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Meder, Doris Morales, Mónica Fernanda Pepperkok, Rainer Schlapbach, Ralph Tiran, Andreas Minnebruggen, Geert Van |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | Scientific progress often goes hand in hand with technological advances and interdisciplinary research. Major breakthroughs in the life sciences, such as the deciphering of whole genomes, stem cell therapy or precision medicine, are the result of both new technologies and joint efforts of biologists, physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists. Moreover, each of these accomplishments would not be possible without support infrastructures that provide specific technologies and expertise. Such high‐end research infrastructures, which are often consolidated as core facilities, have helped to foster a collaborative research environment that is crucial for competitive interdisciplinary science and have become an integral part of life science research. The current third biomedical (r)evolution, manifested by the ever increasing speed of technological innovations, means that an individual researcher can no longer afford and master all state‐of‐the‐art techniques. In the current life sciences ecosystem, core facilities are essential and the only means of providing cutting‐edge technologies and expertise in an affordable manner. Based on our experience operating core facilities, we would like to go even further and take the core facility concept beyond single institutions towards institutional alliances. Providing and maintaining all technologies necessary for the interdisciplinary approaches employed by scientists at leading research institutes have become difficult to impossible at the institutional level. Research projects become more technologically challenging and more expensive. At the same time, technologies turn over ever faster, which imposes a financial burden on the institute and creates a need to find expert scientists to implement, run, improve and adjust those technologies to researchers’ needs. An institute has to focus on a few areas in which it will strive to be at the cutting edge and commit a continuous investment in order to stay there, but it also needs to guarantee access to other technological platforms that cannot be provided in‐house. With this … |
| Starting Page | 1088 |
| Ending Page | 1093 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://embor.embopress.org/content/embor/17/8/1088.full.pdf |
| PubMed reference number | 27412771 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.15252/embr.201642857 |
| DOI | 10.15252/embr.201642857 |
| Journal | EMBO reports |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Behavior Biological Science Disciplines Central Core Myopathy (disorder) Diffusion of Innovation Educational Curriculum Genome Investments Stem cells |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
