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====4. Do you have other ideas 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?==== | ====4. Do you have other ideas 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?==== | ||
+ | The iGEM competition should keep working with well-known organisms. Off course a project can be about toxicity, but then it should be well contained and guided by experienced supervisors. Students should be well informed on lab regulations, especially when working as interdisciplinary teams. | ||
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+ | A categorized and government controlled system of lab experience certificates should be implemented. This is already in place for nuclear laboratories, but not jet for the biohazard laboratories. This will give more clarity on who is capable to work in such environments and this creates the awareness that these hazards deserve. | ||
+ | The most obvious answer is to make Event Tree Analysis (ETA) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) a compulsory part of the iGEM-designing phase. This will significantly limit the risks on all iGEM projects and student will learn to take biosafety into account even before they are going to work in the laboratory. | ||
+ | Also for biosafety engineering it is recommended to use a well-known microorganism, because there is more knowledge on how internal systems work and intertwine. This will make an ETA and FTA more effective and therefore the risks are lower. | ||
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+ | It is well known that genetic engineering has a negative public perception. Genetic engineering is exotic, controlled by others, build up of natural parts, but manmade, it has unknown benefits, imposed, most do not trust the companies. The public thinks they are after the money. The overall media coverage is limited, but iGEM strives to communicate with the media. All with all, this makes that media communication should be approached carefully. This is also a biosafety precaution that should be taken into account. Prevent negative media attention, but never cover up the truth. | ||
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