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Recombinant DNA: have recent experiments assessed all the risks?

Nature volume 282, pages 773–774 (1979)Cite this article

Experiments to test the safety of cloning viral genomes in E. coli, published earlier this year, have allayed fears about the risks of recombinant DNA. But, argue Barbara Rosenberg and Lee Simon, the experiments actually indicated some worrying aspects of the behaviour of recombinarit DNA.

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  1. Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and Lee Simon is at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Rutgers, New Jersey

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Rosenberg, B. Recombinant DNA: have recent experiments assessed all the risks?. Nature 282, 773–774 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282773a0

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