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...Califano's request underlined the remarkable fact that a longtime dream of science, genetic engineering, is at hand -and, some fear, already out of hand. In laboratories across the nation, scientists are combining segments of E. coli's DNA with the DNA of plants, animals and other bacteria. By this process, they may well be creating forms of life different from any that exist on earth...
...Field chiefly justifies the Center's work in romantic terms: "First and foremost, astronomy is an adventure--an intellectual adventure, but also an aesthetic adventure. Everyone can participate in one way or another." Field says, "Humanity loves astronomy--it's the wonder aspect. People don't wonder about bacteria, or the structure of the nucleus. It's a very primitive thing. I can't explain it, but it seems to be real...
...reasons never fully explained we are asked to believe that the U.S. Government is storing deadly bacteria, useful in germ warfare, at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. For reasons never fully explained, a team of agents?their allegiance never identified?breaks in to rip the stuff off. Two are stopped, but one gets away and, infected with the plague, boards an international express train bound for Sweden. For reasons n.f.e., Burt Lancaster, the American intelligence agent in charge of arresting both crook and disease, orders the cars sealed (to prevent an epidemic), then diverts the express to Poland...
...second highest level of safety, with limited access, sterilization equipment, and a special waste disposal system. EK-2 is a host-bacteria, found in the human gut, and used as a containment level in gene-splicing research...
...guidelines state that experiments may be performed up to a level that requires a p-3 lab and an EK-2 level of containment. EK-2 is a host bacteria used in recombinant DNA experiments. The CERB report precludes experiments that are too dangerous to be performed in this level of containment...