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...Office of Scientific Integrity and the National Institutes of Health regarding headlines that appeared over two stories published by your newspaper on November 16 and 17. The articles concerned the Harvard University "Six Cities Study." The headline of particular concern read, "Air Study May Have False Data, NIH Says." This headline has no basis in fact...
...White House practice on the ground that a jobholder's views should be in line with those of the President. "I will not guarantee those questions will not be asked," he says. "But they're not criteria whereby someone is selected." While passions cool, the search for an NIH director has been temporarily suspended...
...fact, Rifkin probably loses in court more often than he wins. Nonetheless, he has forced the Government to establish regulatory pathways for some genetically engineered products and clarify practices for others. In the world of technological regulation, says NIH researcher Anderson with grudging respect, "it takes some sort of catastrophe or threatened catastrophe to get things to happen, and Jeremy is constantly threatening catastrophe...
...University of California, Berkeley. Lindow had discovered a way of snipping a particular gene from bacteria so that the redesigned microbes resisted frost formation down to 24 degrees F. Theoretically, crops sprayed with the microbes could be protected from cold snaps. In 1983 Lindow got permission from the NIH to test his bugs, which he called ice-minus, on a small plot of potatoes in Northern California...
Lindow's bugs were to be the first genetically altered bacteria released into the environment. Although there was strong evidence that the microbes were benign, biologists at Berkeley and the NIH had failed to consider fully the experiment's environmental impact. The oversight allowed Rifkin to sue to block the experiment. The courts agreed, and, thanks to Rifkin, testing was postponed for three years while the NIH, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency struggled to draw up rules under which genetically engineered products would move from the lab to the field...