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...Luria explained yesterday that his research team is committed to a long-term program, adding that it will probably not focus on clinical research for the first few years of the Center's existence...
...Salvador E. Luria, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist, is the head of the new $6 million Center for Cancer Research at MIT. The Center will be funded by grants from the Federal government...
...Luria, Sedgwick Professor of Biology at MIT, said. "The uniqueness of this center is that MIT has been the only non-medical institution to commit itself financially to cancer research on this scale...
...Sidney Farber, a former president of the American Cancer Society and a co-chairman of the Senate Committee for the Conquest of Cancer, yesterday called Luria "a great scientist and a superb choice...
...RING IS ONE among many, both scientists and ethicists, who find it considerably harder to justify "positive" genetic engineering, restructuring the genes to make the "perfect" man. The prospect suggests apocalyptic possibilities: M.I.T. Biologist Salvador Luria approaches it "with tremendous fear of its potential dangers." Biologist Joshua Lederberg of Stanford University disowns such Utopian aims as a proper goal for serious biology, and even doubts that techniques sophisticated enough to achieve them could be perfected in the near future. But the possibility nonetheless tantalizes: Who would decide what qualities to preserve, and by what standards? Even remedial genetic engineering could...