Rather than further increasing the supply of scientists, they suggest, «we need to begin the transition to
a laboratory staffing model that is capable of attracting and retaining our brightest young scientists.
Modeled on such pathbreaking establishments as the Medical Research Council
Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, and Bell Labs in New Jersey, Janelia consists of small, multidisciplinary groups — approximately 45 of them when
staffing reaches full strength in 2009.