Background
The 1975 conference at Asilomar was the topic of coverage in the popular media at the time, and it remains relevant to historical and current discussions today.Â
Historian Luis Campos of Rice University examines the genesis and legacy of the 1975 Asilomar conference in Science.
Michael Rogers covered the 1975 conference for Rolling Stone magazine, which featured the article on the cover with the tagline "Genetic Scientists: Facing the Mutant Microbe."
140 Scientists Ask: Now that We Can Rewrite the Genetic Code, What Are We Going To Say?
