Inder Verma celebrates the recent success of India's biotechnology industry, applauds the increased investment and looks to the future. Your job is to collect urine in the men's bathroom and bring it to the laboratory at the end of the day." These were the instructions my thesis adviser gave me when I began my graduate career in 1966. Others would then purify factors from the urine that might function as a male contraceptive in monkeys. He pointed to a 20-litre glass bottle with a broken rim and a small glass funnel. I was expected to obey his orders ― and I did. (My only intellectual contribution was to switch to a larger funnel, which made it easier for both the donors and for me.)
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