Letter from Roy Curtiss III to Maxine Singer
- Title:
- Letter from Roy Curtiss III to Maxine Singer
- Creator:
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University of Alabama in Birmingham
Curtiss, Roy , III - Recipient:
- Singer, Maxine
- Date:
- 20 May 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 Roy Curtiss III.
- Genre:
- Letters (correspondence)
- Subject:
- DNA, Recombinant and Guidelines as Topic
- Format:
- Text
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Relation:
- Letter from Maxine Singer to Roy Curtiss III, 1977
- Language:
- English
- Legacy Source Citation:
- Original Repository. Library of Congress. Maxine Singer Papers. 12494
- Legacy ID:
- DJBBJT
- NLM ID:
- 101584644X133
- Profiles Collection:
- The Maxine Singer Papers
- Shareable Link:
- https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584644X133
- Story Section:
- Risk, Regulation, and Scientific Citizenship: The Controversy over Recombinant DNA Research