Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give everything onstage. The autobiography shows him honing his lyrics, teasing the word "motoring" into "motorvating" for Maybellene, finding inspiration for a verse of Brown Eyed Handsome Man from Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs, fretting that while in prison he cannot gain access to a map that would help him chart Po' Boy's itinerary in Promised Land. And once he got it right, he always wanted it to be the same kind of right. In Taylor Hackford's Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll, which chronicles the preparation and performance of Berry's 60th-birthday concert...
...time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
...They can use the information, they just can't turn around and sell it again," Gilbert says. However clients could sift through Genome's DNA map to discover the genetic cause for a disorder and develop a cure for it, he says...
Officials in the nation's capital have also noticed the potential benefits a genome map could reap, and are currently debating whether to fund a full-scale sequencing effort. Sen. Peter Domenici (D.N.M.) has introduced a bill that would establish a national gene mapping "initiative" and the Department of Energy has designated three national laboratories to conduct work on the project. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal agency which funds most biomedical research in the nation, also plans to send more resources to a genome mapping effort...
Although scientists disagree over whether a large government push in gene sequencing is necessary, no one doubts the great social benefits such a map could bring. Researchers up to now have translated only a few human gene sequences. And almost all of this little information has been put to practical...