The price of having too much too soon can be high. When Brent Reynolds isolated and cultured mouse brain cells during his PhD at the University of Calgary in Canada, his career was on the fast track. He eschewed a postdoc to start his own company with adviser Sam Weiss, a neuroscience professor at the university. But after Ciba-Geigy invested in the company, a merger and subsequent divestiture effectively sidelined Reynolds and Weiss's technology. Reynolds went from having his research featured on the cover of a major scientific journal to wondering if he wanted to stay in science at all.
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机译：过快的代价可能会很高。当布伦特·雷诺兹（Brent Reynolds）在加拿大卡尔加里大学（University of Calgary）攻读博士学位期间分离并培养小鼠脑细胞时，他的职业生涯发展很快。他避开了一名博士后，与大学神经科学教授山姆·韦斯（Sam Weiss）共同创立了自己的公司。但是，在Ciba-Geigy对公司进行投资之后，合并和随后的资产剥离实际上使雷诺兹和魏斯的技术蒙混了。雷诺兹的研究从刊登在一本主要科学期刊的封面上开始，到他一直想知道自己是否想留在科学领域。
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