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Safety

The 2011 EPFL iGEM team has taken two approaches to its engineering work on transcription factors: one is in vivo and the other is in vitro. Neither presents any form of unusual safety risk. Nevertheless, we should highlight a few aspects of the work that present some risk to the public and to the researcher.

§ The in vivo manipulation of E. coli using various antibiotics, like ampicillin and kanamycin, always presents a minimal amount of risk to those who would be exposed to a resistant strain.