Event Title
A Case Analysis of NEPA Implementation: NIH and DNA Recombinant Research
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
20-1-1978 10:15 AM
End Date
20-1-1978 11:15 AM
Description
A biological revolution is underway which promises and threatens radical changes in plant and animal life as it now exists. Since 1950, biologists have been quietly at work, largely unnoticed, unravelling the mysteries of life. The new scientific knowledge that has emerged-the knowledge of the molecular basis of heredity-gives scientists the potential power to manipulate the genetic code that determines the physical development of all living organisms. For the first time there exists the technology to cross large evolutionary boundaries and to move genes between organisms that would not, under natural processes, have any genetic contact. This process of gene transference between unrelated organisms is called "recombinant DNA technology." While the pace of scientific achievement has accelerated, government's ability to keep up with it has not.
Related Paper
Susan M. Chalker & Robert S. Catz, A Case Analysis of NEPA Implementation: NIH and DNA Recombinant Research, 1978 Duke Law Journal 57-112 (1978)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol27/iss1/2A Case Analysis of NEPA Implementation: NIH and DNA Recombinant Research
Duke Law School
A biological revolution is underway which promises and threatens radical changes in plant and animal life as it now exists. Since 1950, biologists have been quietly at work, largely unnoticed, unravelling the mysteries of life. The new scientific knowledge that has emerged-the knowledge of the molecular basis of heredity-gives scientists the potential power to manipulate the genetic code that determines the physical development of all living organisms. For the first time there exists the technology to cross large evolutionary boundaries and to move genes between organisms that would not, under natural processes, have any genetic contact. This process of gene transference between unrelated organisms is called "recombinant DNA technology." While the pace of scientific achievement has accelerated, government's ability to keep up with it has not.
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