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...Council’s original resolution to initiate a recombinant DNA research moratorium in June followed considerable local and national debate on the potential environmental consequences of such research...
Council Extends DNA Experiment...
Hybridon, one of many biomedical companies which have emerged in Cambridge in the last decade, is developing medicine to combat cancer and bolster the human immune system, including “antisense” technology, which involves the design of synthetic DNA material to inhibit the body’s production of disease-causing protein...
...condition of the remains, identification is not always easy. The families of the missing have been asked to fill a seven-page form with information about the victims' dental records, scars, tattoos and inscriptions on wedding rings. Blood relatives have been asked to provide samples of their own DNA, collected with a swab from the inside of their cheeks, along with the victim's toothbrush, razor or comb--anything that might still hold a bit of their loved one's DNA. Since the crash of TWA Flight 800, DNA testing is considered obligatory in any case in which bodies...
...found nothing--as most did--they filled out a seven-page form describing the missing person with details that included hair color, length of fingernails and even earrings and shoes. Some brought strands of hair plucked from loved ones' brushes, hoping that if survival was out of the question, DNA identification would at least make death a tolerable certainty...