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1: Genome Biol. 2002 Sep 25;3(10):COMMENT1014. Epub 2002 Sep 25.Click here to read Click here to read Links

An Asilomar moment.

Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu

As governments in the US and Europe contemplate legislation that would divert funding of some genomics-driven research to Offices of Homeland Security and the like, and that would restrict the freedom of biologists to publish and share some of their data, we of the scientific community are facing a crisis, brought on by fears of bioterrorism, that eerily mirrors the early days of recombinant DNA research.

PMID: 12372138 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC244904

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