Collaboration

When it comes to science, collaboration is one of the best things that you can do because yes, two heads are better than one. In my experience, I have found that no matter the subject, we do not do research or create in a vacuum. With website development, there needs to be many people coming together to create something that is great and to come up with even more ideas. Scientific research has evolved from comprising primarily simple, well-controlled studies to complex, multi-faceted ones. If scientific collaboration is so useful, why then do not all researchers do it? For some, it may be difficult to find collaborators at their institution that are interested in the same area of research. In this case, an effective strategy is to form technique-based collaborations, in which colleagues share technical expertise with one another with the goal of enhancing the impact of each other's research. On the other hand, one way to meet colleagues that are interested in similar research questions is to attend small, focused conferences where most other attendees are studying the same disease process.