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内容梗概：在美国，数以万计使用过的实验室器材将被送往非洲的国家，用以协助他们发展实验室，节约科研经费。


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Ari Daniel Shapiro
Boston
Harvard Medical School
microcentrifuge
micropipetter
Erlenmeyer
Amanda Nottke
Ph.D.
University of Nairobi in Kenya
Science costs money - a lot of it - money for equipment, for chemicals, for computers. A lab in the U.S. can easily spend millions of dollars each year on supplies alone. These costs are often prohibitive for scientists in the developing world, and that's where a clever idea has made all the difference. Reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro has that story. It's a Saturday afternoon in Boston, and it's pouring outside. But inside the Harvard Medical School, a corridor is surging with activity. Two small rooms are stacked to the ceiling with boxes of science equipment, and a handful of graduate students are emptying them into the hallway to take an inventory. "Microcentrifuge tubes; radiation counters; some micropipetters, which will be super useful; 17 2-liter Erlenmeyer flasks, I think, for cell culture. This looks like a salad spinner." This is all stuff the Harvard labs no longer need. In many academic and industrial labs around the country, it gets tossed or used for scrap. But here, it has a different fate. Amanda Nottke, who's just defended her Ph.D., puts down a handful of pipettes and explains. "We help consolidate surplus into shipments to go to labs in developing countries. Our upcoming shipment, it's gonna be going to University of Nairobi in Kenya."