Difference between revisions of "Recombinant DNA Technology (Biotechnology and Society)"
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== Required Reading == | == Required Reading == | ||
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− | Fredrickson1991 isbn=0309044863 // Fredrickson, Donald S. "Asilomar and Recombinant DNA: The End of the Beginning" pp258-307 | + | #Berg1980 [http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1980/berg-article.html Paul Berg. Asilomar and Recombinant DNA (Nobel Foundation) ] |
− | [http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1793&page=258 Read online at National Academies Press] | + | #Fredrickson1991 isbn=0309044863 |
− | Pages 259-264 are a brief history of molecular biology. You can skip over them if you wish and concentrate on pages 265-284. | + | // Fredrickson, Donald S. "Asilomar and Recombinant DNA: The End of the Beginning" pp258-307 [http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=1793&page=258 Read online at National Academies Press.] Pages 259-264 are a brief history of molecular biology. You can skip over them if you wish and concentrate on pages 265-284. |
− | #Jackson1972 pmid=4342968 // Original paper reporting construction of first recombinant DNA molecule. | + | #Jackson1972 pmid=4342968 |
+ | // Original paper reporting construction of first recombinant DNA molecule. | ||
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− | == | + | == Discussion Questions == |
+ | # What experiments prompted the Asilomar conference? What new technologies had been developed that made them possible? | ||
+ | # Who imposed the 6-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research? Why? | ||
+ | # What new dangers were possible with the use of recombinant DNA? | ||
+ | # Was the comparison of recombinant DNA to nuclear weapons appropriate at the time? Why? Why not? What about now? | ||
+ | # How was the reaction of the public and government different from that of scientists? | ||
+ | # What organizations or agencies oversee recombinant DNA research today? | ||
+ | # What are the lasting effects of the Asilomar model for examining the safety of new biotechnology? | ||
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+ | == Additional Background == | ||
− | * The | + | * [http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/Narrative/CD/p-nid/260 The Paul Berg Papers (Profiles in Science, National Library of Medicine)] |
+ | * [http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/debate/debate3.htm The Recombinant DNA Debate (Online Course Notes)] |
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Required Reading
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- Paul Berg. Asilomar and Recombinant DNA (Nobel Foundation)
- ISBN:0309044863
Fredrickson, Donald S. "Asilomar and Recombinant DNA: The End of the Beginning" pp258-307 Read online at National Academies Press. Pages 259-264 are a brief history of molecular biology. You can skip over them if you wish and concentrate on pages 265-284. - Error fetching PMID 4342968:
Original paper reporting construction of first recombinant DNA molecule.
Discussion Questions
- What experiments prompted the Asilomar conference? What new technologies had been developed that made them possible?
- Who imposed the 6-month moratorium on recombinant DNA research? Why?
- What new dangers were possible with the use of recombinant DNA?
- Was the comparison of recombinant DNA to nuclear weapons appropriate at the time? Why? Why not? What about now?
- How was the reaction of the public and government different from that of scientists?
- What organizations or agencies oversee recombinant DNA research today?
- What are the lasting effects of the Asilomar model for examining the safety of new biotechnology?