California passes gene synthesis screening bill, credited in part to The Curve 2025
deanwball · x · 2026-10-01
Dean Ball applauds California's passage of gene synthesis screening and customer verification requirements, calling it common-sense regulation for an era when agents accelerate synthetic biology the way AI accelerated math. He notes the bill may never have happened without The Curve 2025 conference.
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