Word: nih
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three years, scientists and legislators have intermittently cooperated and struggled with each other to establish uniform guidelines for recombinant DNA research. Next week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to release a final version of its guidelines for genesplicing research. These new regulations substantially ease research precautions, in accordance with the pleas--and lobbying--of much of the scientific community...
...increasingly acrimoniously,they drew up guidelines recommending a voluntary moratorium on certain kinds of recombinant DNA research and setting up standards for physical and biological safety precautions for investigators to observe in different categories of experiments. These conferences proved the basis for the 1976 National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines. Since NIH funds many scientists' research, these suggested guidelines have the force of mandatory regulations...
...Harvard in late 1976 and 1977 demonstrated all too clearly the folly of the scientists' oversight. Lear describes the controversy that pitted Harvard scientists and administrators against the Cambridge City Council as originating with Harvard's proposal for a new special containment laboratory which would conform to the new NIH guidelines -- the same lab scheduled to open here in a few days. At a hostile and emotional City Council meeting, the scientists confronted the Cambridge community. After the dust settled, the council imposed a three-month moratorium on all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge while the Cambridge Experimental Review Board...
WASHINGTON--A report released by the National Institute of Health (NIH) yesterday said that certain brands of cigarettes are low enough in tar and nicotine that smokers can consume up to a pack a day "without apparent risk...
Though the report does not say that smoking these brands is totally safe, it does indicate that smoking these "low-tar" cigarettes in low quantities poses "no apparent risk," Gio Batta Gori, head of the NIH smoking and health program, said yesterday...