Asilomar Across the Atlantic: EMBO, EMBL, and the Politics of Scientific Expertise.

One year later, at its meeting in February 1980, the EMBO SAC reckoned that the time was ripe for “a radical simplification” of guidelines for rDNA research, providing a clear distinction between “the vast majority of experiments” with insignificant risks and the “very few for which a scientific case for a possibly significant biohazard can still be made.” 52 To reinforce this position, the committee could now also refer to the results of the “EMBO Risk Testing Experiment” concerning the measurement of the infectivity in tissue cultured mouse cells of rDNA molecules containing polyoma virus DNA.

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86 The downgrading of German guidelines made P4 capacity scarcely significant, as not a single request for work under P4 conditions had reached the EMBL by November 1980. 87 Meanwhile, many EMBL member states had constructed their own P3 facilities.

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