Research fraud: false data confessed

Joseph Cort, a researcher at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City from 1976 to 1980, has admitted fabricating data on the synthesis of hormone analogues. Cort's research at Mount Sinai was supported principally by a contract from Vega Biochemicals, though he received a small amount of support under a National Institutes of Health grant to his department.     

Genetic engineering: regulation issue is resurrected by EPA

The Environmental Protection Agency is asserting regulatory control over the commercial production of genetically-engineered microorganisms, such as oil-eating bacteria, intended for release into the environment. EPA's legally-complex claim that such organisms are "new chemical substances," and thus subject to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), raises a challenge to the adequacy of regulation by the National Institute of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC) over the commercial and ecological implications of environmental release. Industry, which has been voluntarily adhering to the RAC guidelines, is reluctant to challenge application of the relatively lenient TSCA requirements but eager to see the legal uncertainties resolved.     

Further snag with Stanford patent: filing error claimed in Cohen-Boyer

An attorney for Stanford and the University of California has conceded that there is a serious error in the second Cohen-Boyer genetic engineering patent, but he argues that the patent is still valid. In an August decision to reject the patent, the U.S. Patent Office cited the error as one of several potential flaws. The same potential flaws are found in the original Cohen-Boyer patent, as well. Also in question is whether Robert Helling of the University of Michigan should be included as a co-inventor. Further appeals could delay a final decision until the summer of 1984 or beyond.     

黏土矿物在石油初次运移中的作用研究

从黏土矿物的结构、成岩过程中脱水转化条件以及脱水转化阶段等几个方面讨论了不同转化类型的黏土矿物在石油初次运移中的作用．研究结果表明：并不是所有的黏土矿物都对油气的初次运移起作用，不同的黏土矿物对油气初次运移的作用也不同，其中蒙皂石的脱水、转化对油气初次运移的作用最为显著；黏土矿物的脱水转化是在温度、压力、时间等因素的综合作用下发生的，这就决定了黏土矿物脱水转化的不确定性．只有那些与油气的生成阶段相匹配的转化才会对油气的初次运移产生作用，而早于或晚于油气生成阶段的转化对油气初次运移的作用甚微或没有作用．