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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...space warriors pranced outside, researchers began work, without fanfare, in the Harvard special containment laboratory for recombinant DNA research. The new facility, tucked away on the fourth floor of the Biological Laboratories, is subject to some of the most elaborate safety requirements specified by government DNA research guidelines. The lab, known as a P-3 facility because it requires a high level of physical containment, now houses two Harvard research teams. Behind the reinforced glass doors, entered with a special magnetic identification card, the scientists are experimenting with the genetic code. At the same time, debate continues over another kind...
Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and his Harvard research team are working on the insulin problem. Gilbert has been using the MIT P-3 lab for the past year pending completion of the Harvard lab. This past July his group developed a bacterial strain which synthesized rat proinsulin, a modified form of insulin...
Although the Harvard P-3 laboratory has opened its doors to recombinant DNA researchers at the University, many of the scientists who plan to use the lab may not be exactly sure what safety regulations should be followed. They're not the only ones confused, for even Cambridge administrators cannot agree over which set of regulations researchers may have to follow...
Vellucci focused his efforts on the proposal for the P-3 lab. In a series of angry and emotional Cambridge City Council meetings, he confronted Harvard scientists with accusations of arrogance and indifference toward the Cambridge community. The meetings resulted in a nine-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge while a review board drew up a Cambridge ordinance regulating such experiments...
...Cambridge ordinance, still in effect today, follows the guidelines established in 1976 by NIH, adding a Cambridge Biohazards Committee to review all recombinant DNA experiments and to monitor the safety precautions in the P-3 lab...