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Team:TzuChiU Formosa/Safety
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Safety
Please use this page to answer the safety questions posed on the safety page.
Q1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of: researcher safety, public safety, or: environmental safety?
Ans: The bacteria involved in our experiment is Rhodospirillium rubrum. It is commonly found in soil and surface waters and usually used in laboratory and the Aquaculture. Our designed system combine CODH with a luciferase gene which aimed to detect and degrade carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide, the carbon dioxide is a green house effect factor. We will minimize the produce of Carbon dioxide and idealize the project to degrade carbon dioxide into biofuels. Our bacteria shouldn't raise any issues of researcher, public safety.
Q2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry? how did you manage to handle the safety issue? how could other teams learn from your experience?
Ans: No.
Q3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project? If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?
Ans: Yes. All bacteria or plasmid used have to obtain an approval from University's environmental and biosafety committees. Environmental and biosafety officers made regular random visit to each laboratory to ensure all laboratories are comply with environmental and biosafety regulations. So far our project has received positive responds from the committees.
Q4. 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?
Ans: Perhaps parts, devices or systems can be divided into two categories such as prokaryotes and eukaryotes and regulate under standard environmental and biosafety regulations.
