The International Congress on Recombinant DNA Molecules, held in 1975 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California, broke new ground. In a poacher-turned-gamekeeper sort of a way. At Asilomar the scientists in the vanguard of genetic engineering research brought the public's attention to the potential dangers of their work, but at the same time they established a set of stringent guidelines to ensure public safety. Paul Berg, who — with David Baltimore, Sydney Brenner, Ric...
