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…
Continuous monitoring of Synthetic Biology What is new in Synthetic Biology research? Highlights of Synthetic Biology monitoring Monitoring of Synthetic Biology from 2018 to 2025 What is new in Synthetic Biology research? The annual number of publications with new…
Monitoring Synthetic Biology 2023 published The Synthetic Biology Working Group of the ZKBS has reviewed the publications of the year 2023 and selected 37 of them for publication on their homepage . The working group found that all research approaches in synthetic…
Position Statement of the ZKBS on the European Commission's proposal for a regulation on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed, and amending Regulation (EU) 2017/625 You can find the Position Statement here . Year of issue : 2023…
Monitoring Synthetic Biology 2022 published The Synthetic Biology Working Group of the ZKBS has reviewed the publications of the year 2022 and selected 31 of them for publication on their homepage . The working group found that most research approaches are covered by…
3rd report of the ZKBS on Synthetic Biology published Based on the continuous monitoring of developments in the field of Synthetic Biology in the period from June 2018 to December 2021, the ZKBS has now adopted its 3rd report on Synthetic Biology (not accessible)…
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…
