Current Announcements Monitoring Synthetic Biology 2025 published 9 July 2026 To the announcement All announcements ZKBS Commentary on the Use of AI in Genetic Engineering Published on: 19. June 2026 To the announcement All announcements New Genetic Engineering Law…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the evaluation of genetic engineering projects . published: June 2026 Further information Comment on Mirror Bacteria Joint open letter of ZKBS and COGEM to the European Commission Identification of genome-edited oilseed rape not…

Y Z A ARSOlux test system (2012) (not accessible) [PDF, 66 KB] B Bacteria and Archaeaa_virus of (2026) [PDF, 272 KB] B. subtilis 168_suitability as biosafety measure (2022) (not accessible) [PDF, 644 KB] E E. coli K12 as part of biol. safety measure (2021) (not…

Click here for the December 2018 feature topic New Genetic Engineering Law Adopted On June 17, 2026, the European Parliament—the last institution of the European Union to do so—approved the revised European legislation on genetic engineering. As a result, plants…

AI-based de novo generation of nucleic acid sequences and genomes. In addition, on the 19th of June 2026, a commentary on this subject was published on the ZKBS-homepage: ZKBS commentary on the challenges posed by de novo-generated nucleic acid sequences and proteins…

ZKBS Commentary on Mirror Bacteria Published on: 22. September 2025 The ZKBS has published a commentary on the publication by Adamala et al. (2024) on the dangers to humans, animals, plants and the environment posed by the production of so-called mirror bacteria. You…

Archived english announcements of the ZKBS The adenovirus-based vaccine strains ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca), Ad26.COVS1 (Johnson & Johnson/Janssen) and rAd5-S-CoV2 + rAd26-S-CoV2 (SputnikV) were classified by the ZKBS in risk group 1. More detailed information can…