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Last week the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent for a new form of genetically-altered mouse created by Harvard Professor of Genetics Phillip Leder '56. The mutant mouse develops cancer at an extremely high rate and supposedly will be of great help to medical researchers...
Given these facts, it becomes difficult to trust the conclusions of Professor Leder's research. An altered mouse is still a mouse--it cannot get leukemia from benzene, while humans can. Why then should anyone believe that cancer research results received from mice should apply to humans...
...School Genetics Department, chaired by Dr. Philip Leder, occupies four floors of the new building. Leder's research currently focusses on the role genes play in causing cancer...
...Leder will present a lecture on "Misplaced Genes" that will touch on his research as part of the Research Lectures for Non-Specialists series in Science Center B beginning at 8 p.m. tonight...
...Leder is the Harvard Medical School professor to receive the an annual award, now in its eighth year...