WORKING WEEKENDS, LEAVING AT MIDNIGHT, FRIDAY EVENING MEETINGS, DOES SCIENCE COME OUT THE WINNER?

摘要

Dt's just about midnight on a hot Friday night in July, Enrique Iglesias' 'Dirty Dancer' is on the radio, and 26-year-old graduate student Sagar Shah is starting to look winded. The problem, he says, is not how late it is, or even that he has spent the past three hours working in a cramped sterile cell-culture hood. The problem is that the routine cell-culture maintenance he is doing, bathing his collection of rare human tumour cells with fresh medium, produces no data. And a lack of data, says Sagar, makes him "hungry" for it.