BOLD BIOSCIENCE

摘要

What happens when you group 600 biologists, clinicians, engineers, chemists, physicists, and computer scientists from nearly two dozen university departments into a giant open lab? Officials at Stanford University believe you'll get a great outpouring of discovery, invention, and education. In what some lab planners have called the most radical experiment in research lab design in recent times, the $146 million James H. Clark Center at Stanford scraps solid walls and clunky casework for a completely open lab plan that places any number of scientific disciplines side by side. Lab benches, workstations, and whole offices can be moved on wheels. Utility hookups for power, data, gases, and liquids are exposed at ceiling level, allowing research teams to reconfigure work areas quickly, sometimes in a matter of minutes.