CROs are really expensive, but it&#x27;s surprising what is and what isn&#x27;t.  An NMR goes for ~$160 (but usually because you have unremovable features like GLP, which you may or may not care about depending on the step).  So for some of these things I&#x27;m just &quot;calling over a friend who is a professor at X university&quot; and getting a bit of spectrometer time and a grad student.<p>OTOH, I&#x27;m getting xenograft for just about $30k, which I think is about right.<p>&gt; not everyone in IT realizes that the two fields are qualitatively different in many ways and I think the differences are worth pointing out since they&#x27;re often overlooked around here...<p>Totally agree.