Yesterday afternoon spent an hour working with one of the undergrad students I advise on choosing which medical school acceptance to take. A nice problem for him. Both choices would be fine. Also talked to the materials transfer people about our ability to be compensated for the materials we supply to other investigators. This is a rather complicated issue. The bottom line is one is to supply other investigators which various raw materials (clones, cell lines, etc) on request. The problem in general is that there is a cost involved in making the material. Generally this is done as a courtesy. However, in our case we are an established core set up by a grant from the NIH. We are required by the terms of our grant to be compensated for the supplies and time of a technician. The materials transfer people actually understood exactly what we wanted to do and told us exactly how it could be done quite easily.