The combined financial backing from industry and government gives investigators access to the best instrumentation. All controversy aside, though, the question remains whether academic facilities provide services comparable to private industry's. They had an average coupling efficiency of greater than 98 percent for approximately 85 percent of the syntheses. 2 Marcia Jones, a research specialist at the Medical University of South Carolina's DNA Sequencing Facility, emphasizes the cost effectiveness as well as the convenience of using core facilities. Jones attributes the success of her program to university support, which makes her institution attractive to scholars.
Researchers can simply drop off their samples, and the next day they have a result.
Though academics may once have judged the quality of an institution by the number of volumes in its library, the yardstick for today's institutions may become the accessibility to core research facilities. For certain applications the most cost-effective solution might be a temporary employee. The expansion of the temporary labor market has been one of the most significant changes in American work habits in the last 20 years. Though this practice was once disparaged by social reformers, the temporary worker has become a vital resource in a rapidly growing economy. 3 Yoh Scientific is at the forefront of this trend.