The Society for Genetics (GfG) strongly supports all efforts to improve animal welfare in Germany. In view of the "Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of September 22, 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes" adopted in 2010, a review of the current provisions in this sense is certainly useful.
On January 16, 2012, BASF announced that it would be giving up its activities in the field of green genetic engineering in Europe and continuing research and development overseas.
Berlin. As part of the XX International Congress of Genetics (ICG), the world congress for genetics, Prof. Dr. Alfred Nordheim, President of the German Society for Genetics (GfG) was elected by the members of the International Genetics Federation (IGF) as the new President of this world's most important association of genetic societies.
The Society for Genetics (GfG) welcomes the intention to issue a GenDG in order to eliminate existing ambiguities and legal uncertainties.
On July 14, 1933, the “Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring” passed by the National Socialist Reich Government was promulgated in Berlin.
Berlin. The XX. International Congress of Genetics, which will take place from July 12th to 17th, 2008 at the International Congress Center Berlin (ICC), brings together leading geneticists from all over the world. Among others, Rudolf Jaenisch from MIT/Whitehead (Cambridge, USA) and Shinya Yamanaka from Kyoto University (Japan) will take part in the congress.
The draft GenDG is based on the premise "that genetic information has a number of special features that distinguish it from conventional medical information" (A: Problem, 3rd paragraph).
The life sciences in Germany now have a central structure, the Association of Life Sciences and Biomedical Societies (VBBM). Founded in March 2004, 13 specialist societies have already joined the network, representing a total of over 17,000 life scientists.
The Society for Genetics (GfG) supports the recommendations of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on how to proceed with research into human embryonic stem cells. The German Bundestag will deal with this issue on January 30, 2002.
The EC Directive 98/81 EC on the use of genetically modified microorganisms in closed systems provides for standardization, simplification and acceleration.
