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Harvard professors yesterday gave various views on the debate regarding guidelines the National Institute of Health (NIH) will use to govern potentially dangerous genetics research...
Thomas, a member of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee, which proposed the guidelines to NIH, said that "none of the experiments have been shown to have high risks and the dangers are purely hypothetical...
Margo G. Haygood '76, a member of a special advisory committee which met last week to assist Donald Fredrickson, the director of NIH, in his final decision on research guidelines, said yesterday that she approves "the basics of the guideline," adding that she was called on "to provide public input...
Richard N. Goldstein, Houghton Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, who represented the Boston-area recombinant DNA group before the special advisory committee at NIH, said yesterday the dangers and risks in DNA research are "very real...
...Frankly, I'm surprised that they would issue press releases about this," Dr. Phil Leder, chief of the Lab of Molecular Genetics at NIH and the head of the first team to publish the 1972 results in a scientific journal, said yesterday. "I guess we could have called a press conference when we made the single strand globin sequence in 1972, but we didn't think...