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...NAS invited Ruth Hubbard '44, lecturer on Biology, Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology at the Med School. Matthew S. Meselson, chairman of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the Med School, to speak at the three-day conference...
...Coalition for Responsible Genetic Research, which includes the Cambridge-based Science for the People, a citizens group, will hold a news conference in Washington today calling for a world-wide moratorium on the controversial genetic research shortly before the NAS forum begins...
Davis, an advocate of continuing research with DNA who will be speaking at the NAS forum, said yesterday, "I feel the public has been misled about the real hazards of research," but declined further comment. Meselson was unavailable for comment...
Steve Aldrich '78, a Harvard student and member of Science for the People, said yesterday. "It's interesting to note that the NAS conference is being sponsored by pharmaceutical companies, all of whom stand to profit immensely from the application of DNA recombinant techniques...
...NAS forum, with about 30 scientists participating, will cover the benefits and hazards of recombinant DNA research...