On 24 February 1975, some 150 people met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds near Monterey on the Californian coast. They were mostly scientists from the United States, together with ...

2 And that moratorium spurred a now-famous February 1975 National Academy of Sciences meeting at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, Calif. Called the Conference on Recombinant DNA, or, ...

In 1975, researchers met to discuss the emerging field of biotechnology. The issues surrounding the field today are familiar.

Genetic technologies have the potential to help solve the ever-growing challenges of food insecurity and global health. But for this potential to be met, regulations that hinder scientific innovation ...

In February 1975, an elite group of scientists, policymakers, and journalists assembled for the now-famous Asilomar meeting in Pacific Grove, Calif., to discuss what they knew and didn't know about ...

The payphone was in the main lodge of a conference center at Asilomar State Beach in California, and Capron says the scientists were mostly calling colleagues back at home to tell them about ...