Give biologists the space to be curious, not just better tools

As the Francis Crick Institute in London celebrates its tenth anniversary and I look back on my first year as chief executive, I find myself reflecting on both how much has been achieved and how profoundly life science is changing.

As an epigeneticist, I can safely say that history and context matter.

When I began my scientific career in the 1980s, experiments were painstaking, time-consuming, expensive and repetitive.

Generating a knockout mouse or sequencing a gene could take weeks or months, and required resources that were available at few institutions.

Source: Nature - Machine Learning — Read the full article on the original site ↗