Word: gi
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Many Mission Hill residents expressed anger about the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital's approval Monday of an 18-month lease for a gene-splicing research facility in that town which will be operated by Genetics Institute (GI), a commercial gene-research organization...
...GI officials were unavailable for comment yesterday. Mark Ptashne, chairman of the department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and an adviser to GI, refused comment...
Brune added that he had thought GI, a DNA manufacturing and research company, would be willing to work within these guidelines, but that company officials later told him they felt that the restrictions made it "not worth their while to come in" since future research would be limited...
Cambridge city councilor Alfred E. Vellucci told the Somerville aldermen they should adopt tough DNA regulations at a public hearing last month. The GI facility would have been built near Cambridge...
Somerville Alderman Francis P. Bakey, in whose ward the facility was planned, said yesterday he would prefer to ban all DNA research and did not support the GI proposal. He said GI officials told him that without his support they felt they "couldn't win" and were going to withdraw their application...