Title:

Letter from Maxine Singer to Roy Curtiss III

Creator:

Singer, Maxine

Recipient:

Curtiss, Roy , III and University of Alabama in Birmingham

Date:

3 June 1977

Description:

Roy Curtiss was an attendee at the Asilomar Conference and member of the Recombinant DNA Molecule Program Advisory Committee, which evaluated the safety risks and containment requirements of recombinant DNA experiments. After first agreeing to the voluntary moratorium on such experiments, Curtiss came to regard genetic engineering experiments involving the much-studied K-12 strain of the bacterium Escherichia coli as harmless, and called for revising the NIH guidelines to ease E. coli K-12 containment requirements. In this letter he addressed problems of definition of what constituted recombinant DNA molecules in Congressional bills that sought to achieve the opposite: to impose stricter regulation of recombinant DNA research.

Original Repository:

Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers

Location:

Box: 35. Folder: 1

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the Library of Congress.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

Letter from Roy Curtiss III to Maxine Singer, 1977

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers. 12494

Legacy ID:

DJBBJV

NLM ID:

101584644X134

Profiles Collection:

The Maxine Singer Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584644X134

Story Section:

Risk, Regulation, and Scientific Citizenship: The Controversy over Recombinant DNA Research