The Donald S. Fredrickson Papers

Title:

[Excerpt from Donald S. Fredrickson's diary on the exemption of E. coli experiments from the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules]

Description:

In the revised NIH guidelines for recombinant DNA research released in January 1979, containment requirements for experiments with Escherichia coli (E. coli) strain K-12, the most commonly-used host-vector system in recombinant DNA research, were greatly eased. This reflected a growing realization that experiments during which foreign DNA fragments were inserted into this strain of E. coli did not present the environmental hazards earlier feared by scientists.

Number of Image Pages:

3 (194,816 Bytes)

Date:

1979-10-29 (October 29, 1979)

Creator:

Fredrickson, Donald S.

Rights:

This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.

Exhibit Category:

The Controversy over the Regulation of Recombinant DNA Research, 1975-1981

Relation:

Infection Risk Small in Some DNA Experiments [ca. 1979]

Letter from Philip L. Bereano to Patricia Harris, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (November 21, 1979)

Letter from Richard Goldstein to Donald S. Fredrickson (December 29, 1979)

Letter from Susan Wright to Patricia Harris, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (December 30, 1979)

Letter from Francine Robinson, Coalition for Responsible Genetic Research to Patricia Harris, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (January 21, 1980)

Box Number: 19