Team:Lethbridge/Safety
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==<font color="black">Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? And if yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?== | ==<font color="black">Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? And if yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?== | ||
At the University of Lethbridge, the Risk and Safety Services department has appointed a committee devoted to biosafety. This university committee ensures that biological materials are used safely on campus, and they foresee no problems with the University of Lethbridge 2011 iGEM team’s project, as long as the proper safety practices in the laboratory are employed. | At the University of Lethbridge, the Risk and Safety Services department has appointed a committee devoted to biosafety. This university committee ensures that biological materials are used safely on campus, and they foresee no problems with the University of Lethbridge 2011 iGEM team’s project, as long as the proper safety practices in the laboratory are employed. | ||
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==<font color="black">Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?== | ==<font color="black">Do you have any other ideas how to deal with safety issues that could be useful for future iGEM competitions? How could parts, devices and systems be made even safer through biosafety engineering?== | ||
One of the most useful ways in dealing with safety issues in future iGEM competitions is to continue to have teams complete this mandatory review of the safety of their overall project and to closely examine each of their parts to be submitted to the Registry of Standard Parts. This safety review ensures that teams are critically thinking not only as they work in the laboratory but also as they are promoting their project on a larger scale, especially to the general public. Additionally, having one member of the team be in charge of ensuring that the entire team is aware of any safety issues that could potentially be associated with their project is of utmost importance. This designated safety person would be required to gather the necessary reactions and thoughts from both their fellow team members and the public to determine how synthetic biology and their project in particular could pose a danger. | One of the most useful ways in dealing with safety issues in future iGEM competitions is to continue to have teams complete this mandatory review of the safety of their overall project and to closely examine each of their parts to be submitted to the Registry of Standard Parts. This safety review ensures that teams are critically thinking not only as they work in the laboratory but also as they are promoting their project on a larger scale, especially to the general public. Additionally, having one member of the team be in charge of ensuring that the entire team is aware of any safety issues that could potentially be associated with their project is of utmost importance. This designated safety person would be required to gather the necessary reactions and thoughts from both their fellow team members and the public to determine how synthetic biology and their project in particular could pose a danger. |
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