An Asilomar moment.

Genome Biol

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

Published: September 2002

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.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC244904PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/gb-2002-3-10-comment1014DOI Listing

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