Profit Sharing between Professors and the University?

The intellectual yield from our country's investment in fundamental biologic research has been tremendous. Through the fusion of genetics with bio-chemistry and through the development of ingenious techniques for exploring the range of dimensions that were formerly hidden between microscopy and chemistry, we have acquired a remarkably coherent picture of the universal features of cell structure and function. Moreover, Darwin's theory can now be considered Darwin's law: We understand how the required genetic variation arises, we understand why information cannot flow back from phenotype to genotype, and we can measure evolutionary distance directly in terms of DNA sequences. Yet, however . . .