"Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer," he told The New York Times in 1989.
The second major challenge for CBPR relevant for biomarker discovery lies in foreseeing potential social consequences of any discovery.
Scientists are still working to understand the full consequences of that discovery, and others made about the fossilised skeleton.
Now 83, Djerassi has spent most of his life exploring the consequences of the discovery he made at the age of 28.
Dr. Crick was then at the center of a nexus of biologists in Cambridge, Paris and the United States who were working out the first consequences of the discovery of DNA.
"My whole cheerleading career is based on a lie," Torrance laments when she learns of the theft, and the film is at its most honest and interesting when it deals with the consequences of her discovery, and her relationship with Isis (Gabrielle Union), the Clovers' proud captain.
The result is some 6m newly identified genes (and, by implication, the proteins they describe) to add to the 3m already in the world's databases.The consequences of this discovery will take years to assimilate, but Dr Venter does outline a few preliminary results.
I do not know if the consequences of the discovery of America have been good or evil, because there are so many.
It has wide applications and we do not yet fully understand the consequences of this discovery.
All of which serves to reconstruct an alternative narrative of the New World and certain rather salacious and cynical, yet consistently under-reported, consequences of its "discovery" for the Old World -- and how those forces and effects continue to shape the world today.
