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1 the understanding of hunan genes and the characterization 
2 and study of viral genes. 
3 I said at the beginning that I have had very 
4 grave misgivings about this experience and these rules. 
5 However, what I most feared has not happened. I imagined 
6 that once the NIH guidelines or rules were set down, they 
I would be fixed forever and would never be revised. Forgive 
8 me for my lack of faith in this regard, because these 
g revised guidelines show a tremendous amount of very 
10 rational and sensitive thought by a lot of people, and I 
II an extremely impressed by the thought and time which has 
12 gone into it. 
13 There are still features of them which I consider 
14 to be unnecessarily strict; the use of disabled vectors, in 
1 5 some cases, for the shotgun experiments in warmblooded animals 
16 is one such example. 
1 7 I particularly an impressed by the delegation of 
18 more responsibility to the local institutional biohazard 
19 committees. I was deeply depressed just one minute ago when 
20 the person who preceded me seemed to equate every biochemist 
21 and molecular biologist with someone who studies and has a 
22 vested interest in recombinant DNA. That sector on the graph 
23 looks as though people working on recombinant DNA are essen- 
24 tially the people of the earth. I must say that I do believe 
25 that people who do recombinant DNA research and have a vested 
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