Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly, Gilbert's group is in competition with the California researchers but Gilbert smiles, hesitating to say that he is involved in a "race." The thrill of a good race appeals to him. Rather than being harmful to the research, such pressure probably stimulates better work, Gilbert says, adding, "It can be detrimental, or one can simply view it as part of the effervescence of the field of science. It's not a question of added pressure. I like to rush," he insists...
...Gilbert says that there is something less than total cooperation between the groups attacking the insulin problem. While techniques are traded freely and he has communicated quite a bit with the artificial DNA group, he has been out of touch with the other California group which is employing an approach like...
...When people are doing things similar enough so they can talk with one another," Gilbert says, "they are doing things where they can compete." He feels that it is important for the groups to pursue the same aims independently, saying, "There is no way of knowing which way is better...
...group is tackling the vast problem of how genes are turned on and off--using gene splicing as a research tool rather than an end in itself. She has been studying RNA--one of the intermediate steps the cell employs in translating the DNA code--for 22 years. Whereas Gilbert has a definite medical goal pushing him on, Doty must stab in the dark and hope to come up with a lead which will help scientists to understand this most basic of cellular processes...
...Says Gilbert, "The actual contribution to knowledge is not so narrow that if you don't make it on day one you've lost (a race). There will be ancilliary knowledge that just comes...