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Revision as of 22:24, 19 October 2016
Safety
Write a short safety intro here. Learn more. Please visit the main Safety page to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM. On this page of your wiki, you should write about how you are addressing any safety issues in your project. The wiki is a place where you can go beyond the questions on the safety forms, and write about whatever safety topics are most interesting in your project. (You do not need to copy your safety forms onto this wiki page.)Project Safety
Safety was always our number one priority, with that, there are multiple mechanisms within our project that were created with the purpose of ensuring our own and others safety.
- Choice of a nonpathogenic strain chassi - top 10 and origami E. coli – for our project and Human Practices.
- Use of Ammonium Hydroxide rather than sodium hydroxide in our bioreactor to raise the pH because it is a safer reactant.
- PDGF secretion as our hormone one of interest because it has been pre-approved as safe by the US FDA.
- Grounded the bioreactor to ensure we wouldn’t get shocked, and labeled moving parts to ensure people don’t injure themselves.
Lab Safety
Before diving into our project, all members of the Lubbock_TTU team were required to complete safety training in both Lab Safety and Biological Safety. The safety training, administered by Texas Tech Environmental Health & Safety, ensures that our members have a greater understanding of appropriate behavior in a research laboratory, or other areas that contain biological hazards, and are in compliance with proper safety procedures.
Safe Shipment
Protect your part submissions from delays and blockages!
iGEM teams and the Registry frequently exchange samples of DNA through the mail. Although these shipments are generally not dangerous, they are still governed by national and international laws. iGEM teams should learn how to ship DNA samples safely and legally, and learn which samples should not be shipped.
Did you face any safety problems in sending your DNA parts to the Registry? How did you solve those problems?
Safety Topics
Write about whatever safety topics are most interesting in your project.
