Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experimentation is potentially hazardous largely because of its unpredictability; an experiment could result in bacteria which produce insulin or the creation of new strains of dangerous bacteria that resist antibiotics. Often, the DNA is inserted into the E. coli bacteria, which live in the human gut, but if these hybrid organism were to escape from the laboratory, they could enter the human body and resist its normal immunological defenses. To their credit, scientists engaged in this research were the first to sound the alarm in the early '70s. Lear traces the chain of events that led to regulation...
"They haven't quite figured it all out yet," says Brinza. The Kennedy School curriculum is still evolving and, since there is no tradition of training in public policy, still an experiment. Officials at the School like to compare it with the Harvard Business School. The Business School was founded...
But the events of the summer have left Washington's foreign policy establishment far behind, and official action to reap the benefits of a vigorous and directed East Asian policy have been blocked. If nothing else, normalization would certainly add a new dimension and a new flexibility to U.S. foreign...
Gilbert and the team of scientists traveled to England to devise a method to make bacteria produce human insulin, an experiment which can only be performed in Britain because of less stringent regulations.
Insulin is widely used for the treatment of certain diseases, but it is difficult to obtain and expensive now. If Gilbert's experiment had succeeded, he could have extracted insulin more quickly and much more cheaply.