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Straight talk with...Doris Meder and Geert Van Minnebruggen

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Thus far, they've enlisted four other like-minded core facility managers—from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany; the Campus Science Support Facilities in Vienna, Austria; the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany; and the Functional Genomics Centre Zurich in Switzerland. They've also created a handful of working groups focused on assessing the best new equipment in designated scientific disciplines and developing new ways to put that equipment to use. Katharine Sanderson spoke with Meder and Van Minnebruggen about how they hope to democratize access to the very latest technologies for life scientists.

Can you offer an example of how an alliance of core laboratories could improve access to research platforms and equipment?

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