Word: koshland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mosier's research bore some relevance to the discussions under way at the NIH meeting. While the Stanford work with fetal tissue appeared to be a powerful argument for continuing such experimentation, the La Jolla studies seemed, however unintentionally, to offer an alternative. Still, Daniel Koshland Jr., editor of Science, who admitted to releasing the Stanford results a week early in order to coincide with the NIH meeting, strongly backed the scientists' right to continue their research. Said Koshland: "This is an excellent example of careful, scientifically controlled use of fetal tissue to attack major human disease." Moreover, the fetal...