Word: lederal
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Harvard geneticist Philip Leder cites many common diseases -- hyper-tension, allergies, diabetes, heart disease, mental illness and some (perhaps all) cancers -- that have a genetic component. Unlike Huntington's and Tay-Sachs diseases, which are caused by a single defective gene, many of these disorders have their roots in several errant genes and would require genetic therapy far more sophisticated than any now even being contemplated. Still, says Leder, "in the end, genetic mapping is going to have its greatest impact on these major diseases...
...common practice is that research use in a non-commercial sense is never challenged," said Joyce Brinton, director of Harvard's Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing. Brinton said that Leder had already been offering his product to researchers at a rate well below the breeding costs of the mice...
...concerned that the moratorium woulddelay the development and implementation ofgenetically-altered animals and thereby create anenvironment of secrecy [inimical to research],"Leder said in an interview yesterday. "It wouldalso serve as an incentive to drive thedevelopment of biotechnology overseas...
...Leder said he had not heard of the Kastenmeierbill and thus could not comment on the specificprovisions of it, but stressed that he has soughtall along to share his work with his fellowresearchers...
...Information regarding this has [already] beenwidely published," Leder said...