I know it is quite some work but it would be good, I think, if someone would respond (at least in German) in some detail to this article, since it is an influential media outlet. We will be happy to publish such a reponse on the Synenergene website. Please let me know in case you are interested.
Von: Rüdiger Trojok [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Sonntag, 28. Mai 2017 13:38 An: [email protected]; Erich Berger Cc: Victor de Lorenzo; Markus Schmidt; europe; biocommons; Josiah Zayner Betreff: Re: crisper-gate at the European CDC btw. i need to clarify further. please distinguish the GMO laws and biohazard regulations. a pathogen contamination is a biohazard problem and there are reasonable laws in place to deal with it. this is the problem with the odin kit, it was contaminated. On top, it violated the GMO laws. this is the shitty law which doesnt make much sense and which i recommended politics and public to update and liberate to some degree. but now the biohazard story is overshadowing the GMO debate. neither the bavarian authorities nor the media seem to care too much about it, the bottom line ends up being sth like: diybio is GMO is biohazard thats what i mean with the problematic conflation of these different topics. Am 28.05.2017 um 13:21 schrieb Rüdiger Trojok: hey all, this is the most negative article i have ever seen on this topic in the last years. its like some people were just waiting for a call to write this destructive stuff. the problem is the conflation of diybio, crispr and european attitude/law and zayner who messed up twice - absence of quality assurance in production and poor PR handling of the situation after it surfaced. (we are still waiting for our own metageomic screening results from embl, but so far we think it was a flawed production and lack of quality assurance.) emancipation and education narratives surrender against safety stories and safety is the business of the authorities. regarding german law: federal authorities issues a warning on the kits with which you do gmo. but its no news, the law is in place since the 1990, they just pointed it out. the bavarians interprete the law very rigidly and dont even allow small experiments which are legal in berlin. that was also news to me. but overall the situation is as shitty as its always been, just that now authorities seem to do sth about it. i guess they are motivated by some groups inside academia, who do not like it that a bunch of newcomers take over their public narrative. but instead of simply improving their outreach, they are using deepstate actions making authorities move against us. i believe its a mostly degenerated and socially unaware old academic "elite" who is responsible and who did and does a very bad job in dealing with society. i think taken together with the other problems we face in the scene, this scandal has the potential to destroy the last 9 years of work on the topic in EU. citizen science has been ruined by politicians and institutions, biohacking by weird esoterics and bodygrinders and now diybio.... i doubt the label will survive this. Am 28.05.2017 um 00:28 schrieb Marc Dusseiller: and another one... https://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/genetik-baukasten-gentechnik-gehoert-nicht-ins-kinderzimmer-ld.1296534 m On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Erich Berger <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: hello everybody, I never saw an answer to the question of Victor - is there anything true about this rumor ? best Erich On Thu, 2017-05-11 at 17:48 +0200, Victor de Lorenzo wrote: > Hi Markus! I was with Paul Freemont today, who told me that Germany had > prohibited 5 days or so > ago DIY activities with jail up to 2 years! Do you know anything about this? > Is it connected (and > perhaps distorted) with the news you say? > > Victor de Lorenzo > http://www.cnb.csic.es/~meml<http://www.cnb.csic.es/%7Ememl> > > > El 11 may 2017, a las 11:04, Markus Schmidt > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> escribió: > > > Hello! > > > > The crisper-gate made it into this week’s Nature news section: > > http://www.nature.com/news/diy-gene-engineering-an-attack-on-darwinism-and-a-probe-into-nazi-sci > > ence-1.21965?WT > > > > DIY memo The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) in > > Stockholm has called > > on European Union member states to review their procedures for authorizing > > do-it-yourself gene- > > engineering kits produced in the United States. The kits, which are > > intended to contain a > > harmless strain of the common laboratory bacterium Escherichia coli, use > > CRISPR precision- > > editing technologies and are targeted at citizen scientists. The move > > followed the discovery in > > March by German authorities that some kits had been contaminated with > > pathogenic bacteria, > > including some multidrug-resistant strains. Germany has since banned their > > import. The ECDC’s > > assessment report concluded that the risk of infection to users is low. > > > > ECDC assesses risk of ‘do-it-yourself’ CRISPR gene engineering kit > > contaminated with pathogenic > > bacteria > > http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/press/news/_layouts/forms/News_DispForm.aspx?ID=1610&List=8db7286c-fe2d > > -476c-9133- > > 18ff4cb1b568&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fecdc%2Eeuropa%2Eeu%2Fen%2Fpress%2Fnews%2FPages%2FNews%2Easpx > > > > They conclude that infections risk is low but that all European authorties > > should check on their > > legislation regarding DIYBio kits and they recommend to only buy kits from > > professional > > companies who carry out proper quality assessment. > > > > http://ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications/_layouts/forms/Publication_DispForm.aspx?List=4f55ad51-4ae > > d-4d32-b960-af70113dbb90&ID=1692 > > > > Cheers, Markus > > > > > > > > Dr. Markus Schmidt > > BIOFACTION KG > > Kundmanngasse 39/12 > > 1030 Vienna, Austria > > www.biofaction.com<http://www.biofaction.com> > > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > > > <45891737-9BC8-4C36-9C28-F4EDC8CA3E96[3].png> > > > > > > <45891737-9BC8-4C36-9C28-F4EDC8CA3E96[3].png> -- ******************************************************* !!NOTICE: new phone nr: tel: +41 77 9930877 ******************************************************* //////dusjagr labs///////////////////////////////////////// Dr. Marc Dusseiller Schöneggstr. 34 | CH-8004 Zürich | tel: +41 77 9930877 | skype: dusjagr www.dusseiller.ch/labs<http://www.dusseiller.ch/labs> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// SGMK | Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Mechatronische Kunst Postfach 2161 | CH-8031 Zürich www.mechatronicart.ch<http://www.mechatronicart.ch> ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// hackteria | Open Source Biological Art www.hackteria.org<http://www.hackteria.org> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
