Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics say that Gilbert's copyright ideas could transform campus-based research by increasing the profit motive for professors. The free exchange of information would be restricted as scholars worry about protecting their discoveries from competitors. And connections between professors and the companies that develop their finds would tighten the ties between universities and industries, which critics fear will threaten academic freedom...
...Gilbert believes such fears are unfounded. "NIH spends $7 billion a year. This project is still small compared to the research done in this country," he says...
...would cost as much as city hospital," Gilbert says...
...Once we have the sequence, human biology can shift from the qestion of how to find the genes to the question of what genes do," Gilbert wrote recently...
Impatient for Washington--which Gilbert believes "is too slow" to lead the way--the professor has been raising funds for his own sequencing efforts and plans to start operations this fall...