In 2008, Nature published a six-part essay series called Meetings that Changed the World. One of our choices was the International Congress on Recombinant DNA Molecules, held in February 1975 at the ...

A conference held at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in 2017 to establish guidelines for research in artificial intelligence. With more than a hundred people in attendance, the result of the ...

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 ...

The year was 1975, before cell phones and email became ubiquitous, and Alex Capron remembers watching scientists lining up at a payphone during breaks at a conference. The payphone was in the main ...