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Francis Rolleston proposes a formula to bridge the safety gap in recombinant DNA research and concludes that any approach which falls short calculation of the risks is necessarily misleading.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has raised $4 million to establish an ambitious College of Science, Technology and Society. Supporters say it will help give MIT-trained scientists and engineers “an education for the 21st century” others claim it is an attempt to protect private industry from criticism of its use of science. David Dickson reports