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Certainly, Gilbert's group is in competition with the California researchers but Gilbert smiles, hesitating to say that he is involved in a "race." The thrill of a good race appeals to him. Rather than being harmful to the research, such pressure probably stimulates better work, Gilbert says, adding, "It can be detrimental, or one can simply view it as part of the effervescence of the field of science. It's not a question of added pressure. I like to rush," he insists...
Work marches to the speed of a different drummer for Helga Doty, a senior research associate in Biochemistry, and her coworkers, who have also begun working in the P-3 laboratory at the Biolabs. Doty's group is tackling the vast problem of how genes are turned on and off--using gene splicing as a research tool rather than an end in itself. She has been studying RNA--one of the intermediate steps the cell employs in translating the DNA code--for 22 years. Whereas Gilbert has a definite medical goal pushing him on, Doty must stab in the dark...
Since teaching may take time away from research needed to establish an academic reputation, the report also recommends allowing Faculty members to take two successive semesters with an overload of teaching, giving them one semester with a light teaching load to concentrate on research and writing...
...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...
...many ways, the battle over recombinant DNA regulation begins and ends in Cambridge. In the early 70s, as recombinant DNA technology rapidly developed, scientists began to consider the potential risks of genetically combining organisms with different characteristics. Scientists petitioned the NIH, the federal agency that funds most scientific research, to develop a set of guidelines for recombinant DNA research. When Harvard proposed to build the $600,000 special research laboratory three years ago, then-Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci heard about the recombinant DNA safety debate and questioned whether scientists should be allowed to perform recombinant DNA experiments in Cambridge...