> It's unrealistic to think contract labs or university core facilities can get the same results as a highly specialized team of academic researchers, they say. Often a graduate student has spent years perfecting a technique using novel protocols, Young says.

Then they need to spend the time documenting those protocols.

My dad worked in biological research, and his attitude has always been: if you don't write it down, you might as well not have done the work at all. ESPECIALLY in research.