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Team:Example C/Safety
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Welcome!
Dear Teams,
Thank you for participating in iGEM 2014! Every year, we see projects exploring synthetic biology and helping everyone be safer. We want you to be able to work as freely as possible. The safety policies help us keep informed of your work, and help you make sure your team members are safe.
This year's safety forms are different from last year, so please read them carefully! Visit the Safety Hub to learn about this year's safety requirements, and to learn about general biosafety topics and how to think about the future implications of your project. The Safety Hub is the central page for everything related to safety in iGEM.
Customize this page!
You can use this page to write about anything related to safety in your project.
In the section below, there are a few example questions to get you started. This is not the official safety form, and you do not have to answer these questions exactly as written. The purpose of these questions is to make you think creatively about safety.
Lab Safety for Today
- What chassis organism will you use? Could it make you sick, if you handled it improperly?
- As you modify your chassis organism, are you making it a stronger disease germ, a weaker one, or the same strength as before?
- What training have your team members had on laboratory safety?
- What might happen if some of your bacteria/yeast/cells escaped into the environment, for example on the bottom of someone's shoe?
Safety for the Future of Our Project
- Imagine that your dreams came true, everything worked perfectly, and you accomplished everything you want to do. Imagine that your project became widely used as an industrial tool, a commercial product, a medical device, or in whatever way you desire.
- Is your project supposed to be released into nature? What effect might it have on the environment?
- Is your project NOT supposed to be released into nature? What might happen if it got out by accident, for example by a spill from an industrial bio-reactor?
- Is your project supposed to be used on humans? How can you make sure it will help people, and not make them sick?
- In your country, what are the laws about making genetically modified organisms, using them on humans, or releasing them into the environment?
- You do not have to solve every future safety problem! We would like to see you think realistically about safety questions, and propose future experiments that might help answer those questions.
