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...Sargent Cheever, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and director of admissions at the Medical School, said the proposal would probably not be helpful in evaluating Harvard undergraduates "because the reputation of an institution and course teacher--with which we are familiar here--are more important than grades...
...field, most notably Robert Sinsheimer, chairman of the Biology Department at Cal Tech, who believe that biodisasters could occur. In an interview in Science Magazine Sinsheimer cites the possibility that, by endowing lower organisms with the DNA of upper organisms, a "sort of betrayal of state secrets at the molecular level may occur." These new organisms may be endowed with dangerous, possibly lethal characteristics that scientists may not be able to combat...
There is no quarrel about whether there are hazards. Everybody knows there are hazards. It is the molecular biologists themselves who about three years ago blew the whistle on this kind of research, and for three years there has been continuous dialogue. We who are worried are constantly being told, "you're just having bad dreams." If we've just been having bad dreams, then what have they been talking about for three years...
...these experiments, researchers would transfer loose strands of DNA--the basic molecular unit of heredity--from warmblooded animals into specimens of E. coli, a commonly-utilized laboratory bacterium, in hopes of producing a new species with heretofore unknown characteristics...
Joining George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, in opposing the proposed research at Harvard's Biology Laboratories were several members of the Boston chapter of SftP: Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Richard C. Lewontin '50, Agassiz Professor of Zoology, Steven Chorover, professor of Psychiatry at MIT, and Jonathan King, associate professor of Biology...