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...original product. Fruits of this term's efforts: a barley wine, a dark German-type beer and a low-carbohydrate model. But both state laws and college custom decree that all potions be discarded after taste tests. "Sentence one, day one: there will be no abuses," says Microbiologist Michael Lewis, a ruddy-faced Welshman who has taught the course since...
...money being used to manipulate the genes of life to create a brave new world?" asked Jeremy Rifkin of the Peoples Business Commission. But many scientists who only a year ago opposed recombinant DNA research are now largely convinced that the hazards have been overstated. Besides, as Microbiologist John E. Nutter, manager of the NIH P-4 program, notes, "the potential benefits of being able to reproduce large quantities of genetic material are enormous...
...University of California in San Francisco succeeded in transplanting a rat insulin gene into the DNA of a laboratory strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli. The bug then multiplied into countless duplicate bacteria, each containing the insulin gene, but incapable of producing insulin. In the work announced last week, Microbiologist Herbert Boyer of the University of California, San Francisco, along with Biochemist Arthur Riggs of the City of Hope Medical Center near Los Angeles and Physiologist Wylie Vale of the Salk Institute in San Diego synthesized copies of the gene for somatostatin, a hormone in the brains of mammals that...
Supporting this view in an Op Ed piece in The New York Times last April, Rene Dubos, a microbiologist and professor emeritus of Rockefeller University, wrote, "I now realize [however] that genetic change occurs frequently under natural conditions... I doubt that gene recombination in the laboratory will create microbes more virulent than those endlessly being created by natural processes." Dubos concludes his article by describing DNA research as "one of the most exciting areas of knowledge, with large philosophical and scientific implications for the misunderstandings of life...
Emulating the U.S. President's annual State of the Union report to the American people, the United Nations this week issued its annual "state of the environment" report to the people of the world. Presented this year by Mostafa Kamal Tolba, an Egyptian microbiologist who is executive director of the U.N.'s Environment Program, the 15-page document acknowledges that there are some environmental success stories -in efforts to cut down oil pollution of the seas, clean up rivers, safeguard certain species of wildlife and prevent the misuse of pesticides. But the report focuses on four areas...