In my experience, you're lucky if you can get space for your equipment at all.
One week, they're moving your growth cambers out into the hallway to work in the ceiling. The next, they had to cut power for 8 hours for maintenance, and by the way, it wasn't plugged into an outlet with emergency power. Oops.
Hell, they can't even keep the lab temperature steady. Solutions sitting on your bench will start to precipitate out.
So yeah, the issue is money. It's also planning; you never know what the needs of researchers are going to be in a few years.
In the end, nice facilities can certainly help with a lot, but they don't address the core issues of experimental variables and combinatoric complexity. The way you deal with this is skeptical peers that understand the methods, reliance on robust methods wherever possible, and independent methods to confirm results. Even with all this replication difficulty, it is quite possible to make compelling conclusions.
One week, they're moving your growth cambers out into the hallway to work in the ceiling. The next, they had to cut power for 8 hours for maintenance, and by the way, it wasn't plugged into an outlet with emergency power. Oops.
Hell, they can't even keep the lab temperature steady. Solutions sitting on your bench will start to precipitate out.
So yeah, the issue is money. It's also planning; you never know what the needs of researchers are going to be in a few years.
In the end, nice facilities can certainly help with a lot, but they don't address the core issues of experimental variables and combinatoric complexity. The way you deal with this is skeptical peers that understand the methods, reliance on robust methods wherever possible, and independent methods to confirm results. Even with all this replication difficulty, it is quite possible to make compelling conclusions.