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...National Institutes of Health (NIH) informed Medical School officials Wednesday it is withholding a Harvard professor's funds for recombinant DNA research because he failed to obtain NIH certification for his laboratory...
...NIH Inspected...
Beckwith joined over 100 scientists who sent a letter to Congress two weeks ago expressing their disagreement with the misrepresentation and exaggeration of recent data purporting to show the safety of recombinant DNA research. "The NIH now finds that the guidelines it originally issued in July, 1976, for the conduct of recombinant DNA research are too restrictive and is planning to weaken them. We feel it is no longer the prerogative of the NIH to rewrite these guidelines," the letter stated...
...NIH committee, according to Stetton and Daphne Kamely, assistant to the director's office on recombinant DNA activities in Washington, will continue to review the cases, and as more experimentation proceeds, it may become possible to relax the limitations, she says...
...while it is necessary that Harvard's committee continue to inspect facilities and for the NIH to be constantly aware of the activities being performed in P-3 facilities, the question at hand may essentially boil down to whether or not science should be restrained. For those who are strongly opposed to the research, there must be more assurance from Washington officials that the results produced from recombinant DNA research will not be abused. But scientists performing the controversial experiments wish to proceed without limitations, and the issue will not subside until there is some compromise on both sides, which...