This continues throughout our education and training in work- where we are trained to compete rather than collaborate.
At the moment, laboratories are competing to work out the same protein structures, rather than collaborating in the way that they did to produce the human genome.
As Professor Piddock has pointed out, with such scarcity of funding, research teams tend to compete against each other rather than collaborate.
We have tended to argue over detail rather than collaborating and building the infrastructure to support a powerful movement for change.
The paucity of data that could help treat rare diseases is exacerbated by doctors' reluctance to share what little information does exist, because hospitals tend to compete with one another rather than collaborate.
"Rather than collaborating to reduce food-borne pathogens" as is regularly done abroad, she reports, the patchwork of United States government agencies and the food companies themselves "shift attention to consumer education as the best way to ensure safe food".
After Sondheim, he might have delved further into darkness by staging masterworks like "Marat/Sade," rather than collaborating on a production that seems to want to prove only that a gay character can be as boring and unremarkable as the straight ones.
"It's a really fulfilling value exchange for both the kids and the staff involved, and gives us a chance to find new talent that we wouldn't have found otherwise," said Hook. "Overall, agencies have tended to focus on competing for share of talent, rather than collaborating to maximise the size of the talent pool.
The government should be working with others, rather than "collaborating" and talking to people, instead of "engaging in dialogue".
As more researchers discover the potential of lipidomics, though, some are starting to do the work themselves rather than collaborate with a dedicated lipid facility.
