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Team:OUC-China/Safety
From 2011.igem.org
1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of: researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety?
No. Our strains , promoters and linked genes in research is unlikely to cause any safety issues. Additionally, all our research and experiments are carefully complying with biosafety regulation in ocean university of China.
2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues?
No. BioBrick constructed by iGEM 2011 OUC-China team would not raise any safety issues. The BioBricks we used and made in the research only code for non-hazardous molecules such as signaling molecules and their receptors in QS.
3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
Yes. Our project is supported by Department of Marine Life Science, OUC. Hence the project is also under their regulation. Also, we have three academic professors and lab managers to give us lab training before gaining access to the labs and help supervise our research and experiments in biosafety issues.
4. 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?
In our project, any one of the five elements in environment (mental, wood, water, fire and earth) promote a specie, and promoted by another. At the same time, it restrain a specie, and restrained by another. Every species comply with this regulation of nature and find their niche including bacteria, so that they can survive in harmony. Absolutely the same thing is true on GMO. Finding a niche for new GMO will prevent abusing of the specie. So we propose that teams could describe more about the proper environment of strains they made, including the substance and other species which can restrain or promote it. So that we can provide a biosafety guidance for those who want to use them.
