title: The haves and the have nots.
abstract: As the equipment needed to perform state-of-the-art research in many areas of biology becomes ever more expensive, Eve Marder worries that researchers in less wealthy institutions might be left behind.
authors.affiliation: Eve Marder is an eLife senior editor, and is in the Department of Biology and the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, Waltham, United States marder@brandeis.edu.
authors.forename: Eve
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marder
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class
keywords: Living science; careers in science; science policy and funding