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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parcel of protoplasm has now become the center of a stormy controversy that has divided the scientific community, stirred fears-often farfetched-about tampering with nature, and raised the prospect of unprecedented federal and local controls on basic scientific research. Last week the bacterium known to scientists as Escherichia coli* (E. coli, for short) even became a preoccupation at the highest levels of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOOMSDAY: TINKERING WITH LIFE | 4/18/1977 | See Source »

...EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" exclaimed Whacker, his breath heavy on my neck. "What?" I queried. "EEEEEEE-coli!" Whacker rejoined. "My little buddies--not so little any more...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...With recombinant genes on our side, we're gonna do great things, great things, yep, yep. Drop a bucket of these little coca coli on the Mexican countryside, and you'll have big meatless enchiladas running around, terrorizing people. And there's another big plus...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: One Day At The p-3 Facility... | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...exposure in nature, recombinants of this general class must have been formed innumerable times over millions of years. They have thus been tested in the crucible of natural selection, and if they had high survival value we would be recognizing short stretches of mammalian DNA in E. coli. We do not. If, on the other hand, naturally occurring recombinants are appearing and even causing disease, but are escaping our attention, we would have to ask how much our laboratories could add, since nature experiments with about 102)-1022 bacterial cells produced in the human species...

Author: By Bernard D. Davis, | Title: Darwin, Pasteur and the Andromeda Strain | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

...Strain K12 of E. coli has become adapted to artificial media during transfer for at least 30 years in the laboratory. Recent tests in England showed that after a dose in man much larger that what one would expect from a laboratory accident, it disappeared from the stools within a few days. Its problems of survival are analogous to those of a delicate hothouse plant thrown out to compete with the weeds in a field...

Author: By Bernard D. Davis, | Title: Darwin, Pasteur and the Andromeda Strain | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

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