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Asilomar hosts 50th anniversary biotech conference and Santa Cruz grand jury shares agency responses

KAZU | By Amy Mayer
Published February 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM PST
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At the first Asilomar conference on biotechnology, Herb Boyer (a founder of Genentech) and Paul Berg of Stanford speak outside the meeting.

Scientists are gathering at the Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove for a meeting about technology and society 50 years after a conversation about genetic engineering and ethics began there, and the Santa Cruz County civil grand jury has published agency responses to its recommendations. They come from the board of supervisors, superintendent of schools, sheriff-coroner, city council and local agency formation commission.
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Amy Mayer
Amy Mayer is an award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of experience in public radio. Before KAZU, she worked as an editor for the California Newsroom and at St. Louis Public Radio. For eight years, she covered agriculture as the Harvest Public Media reporter based at Iowa Public Radio. She's also worked at stations in Massachusetts and Alaska and has written for many newspapers, magazines and online news outlets.
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