So you might spend two or three years, $100,000 to $200,000, running a well-designed study that they've approved the protocol for, maybe with a contract lab, maybe in your own facility.
Some bit of Kansas miscreance, a meth lab maybe.
Kaeberlein says he knew immediately that he wanted to work in Guarente's lab: "Maybe I'm somewhat impulsive about these major life decisions, but when something strikes me as feeling right, I do it and I don't look back".
"It's really different to encountering a conundrum in the lab," says Linn. "Maybe you put your materials too close to the fridge and it interfered". That level of complexity is not available in simulations — not yet anyway.
Outside of the lab hmmm, maybe inside the lab, too, Teh was a college basketball fanatic.
Once cats are taken care of, maybe the lab types can go to work on other life forms that could do with a little reconstituting.
They begin mildly enough, sneaking into the lab at 9 45 a.m., maybe grabbing an hour-long coffee with friends midday.
"Doing a postdoc is hard work wherever you do it," says Küster-Schöck. "You will be a newcomer to the lab, the institution, and maybe the field and techniques.
"I can remember being in the lab when I was maybe 6 or 7 and... being allowed to press buttons and help out with little bits of experiments," Oliver says.
And then, would people that read everything that I write, every day" — in those Garagiste e-mail offers — "be interested not just for the wine but for the story, the cats, the meth lab, the geologist, the maybe-no-woman-in-his-life.
