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

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Identifier: 101584939X136
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  • Creation: 29 October 1979

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3 pages

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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.

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