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Last Wednesday, the German Ethics Council devoted its Bioethics Forum to the topic "Intersexuality – life between the sexes". Its aim was to remove the taboos from the social debate on intersexuality, to question prevailing socially constructed sexual norms and to start a discussion on the social acceptance of intersexuals.

Under the title “Human Biobanks for Research”, the German Ethics Council today issued its second Opinion.

More than 300 people from all walks of life attended the German Ethics Council’s second Annual Meeting, held in Berlin on 20 May 2010, on the subject of “Migration and health: cultural diversity as a challenge to medical care”.

The German Ethics Council held its first Parliamentary Evening in Berlin yesterday (Wednesday)

The combination of human and animal genes, cells and tissues in the laboratory raises ethical concerns about the significance and possible blurring of the boundary between humans and animals, a topic on which the German Ethics Council is currently drawing up an Opinion. This was the context of a public hearing held by the Council on 25 February 2010 to which experts from the United States, the United Kingdom and Austria were invited.

Shall we soon be creating “life-forms from a self-assembly kit”, and if so how might our image of humanity be changed? This question was addressed by the German Ethics Council on 24 February 2010 at a public evening meeting in the Bioethics Forum series.