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...films on the grounds that authorities consider them to be totally devoid of scholarly merit. Moreover, they are racist and violate every code of moral decency. Mr. Hakansson stated he "had been officially invited to present these films to members of the Harvard community by the Peabody Museum and biologist George Wald." I later shared my concerns about this subject with several of my colleagues, but it was too late to try to stop the presentation through normal channels...
...Yale experiment, described by Biologist Francis Ruddle at an international conference on cell biology in West Berlin, he and Colleagues Jon Gordon and George Scangos isolated genes from two viruses and manufactured them in large quantities. Then, guided by a high-powered microscope and using tubes thinner than hairs, they delicately microinjected 1,000 to 20,000 copies of the genetic material directly into the nuclei of newly fertilized mouse eggs kept alive in laboratory dishes. The eggs were then carefully transferred to the wombs of female mice and eventually the foster mothers gave birth to 150 infants. The newborns...
...having ideas stolen, or at least with an assurance of legal recourse if they are. But others fear that just the opposite will happen: that scientists will be cautious about sharing information, long an essential part of the scientific process. Warns M.I.T.'s Jonathan A. King, a molecular biologist: "Now you have the prospect of keeping a strain [of bacteria] out of circulation until you have the patents." Wolfgang Joklik, chairman of Duke University's department of microbiology and immunology, wants to see scientists rewarded for what they do. But he adds with concern, "I just...
There is a dark side to Soviet psychiatry: its misuse as a political weapon to punish dissidents, in 1970 Biologist Zhores Medvedev, who now lives in London, was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the order of his city commune. He was released 19 days later, after a wave of international protest. Medvedev had struck a deal with hospital authorities that if discharged he would write nothing about his hospitalization or the struggle to get him out; when he learned that he would have to report regularly to mental health centers for follow-up care, he and his brother, Historian...
...Another biologist, Donald H. Pfister, associate professor of Biology and a specialist in the study of fungi, will officially take over July 1 as curator of the Farlow Herbarium and Library, the largest university-associated collection of lower-order plants in the world. Pfister will also become a full professor in the Biology department...