Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology and the faculty supervisor of the labs, said yesterday that although the new guidelines would make a p-3 facility unnecessary at this time, he hopes scientists will find some...
...Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, found himself in that very position this August, and the University has quickly taken steps to ensure that a similar mishap does not occur again...
...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...
...Gilbert and the scientists who accompanied him say the mix-up occurred because a piece of dry rat DNA that was stuck on a glass tube or gel plate apparently mixed with the human genetic material they isolated in preparation for their experiments in England...