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Anticipating the passage of a proposed ordinance which would strictly restrict DNA experimentation, Genetics Institute (GI) last week withdrew its application to convert an empty building in Somerville to a DNA research facility, Somerville officials said yesterday...
...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...
Mark Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a GI official said at the hearing that the company was willing to follow any guidelines set up by the city. Ptashne added that the firm would be doing experiments only at the P1 and P2 levels, but he saw no reasons that P3 level research should be ruled...
Bernard N. Fields, professor of Microbiology, said in a question period preceding the forum that he "did not see any significant hazards (from GI's proposed plant) if NIH guidelines are followed." The work done in hospital microbiology labs is potentially more harmful than the DNA experimentation, because the viruses used in DNA research are weakened strains, he added...
There is no known danger in GI's planned recombinant DNA experimentation, Ptashne said, adding that "We're legislating against purely hypothetical problems...