Micromanipulator at the Chair of Livestock Biotechnology of Prof. Dr. Schnieke

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Rules of Conduct

Conduct in the iGEM Competition is overseen by two committees of external experts: the Safety Committee and the Responsible Conduct Committee. Failure to follow the rules may result in these committees choosing to take disciplinary action against your team, up to and including ineligibility for awards and disqualification from the competition. 4.1 Safety Teams must agree to follow all of the Laboratory Safety Rules throughout the competition.? 4.2 Responsibility Every iGEM participant must agree to adhere to the Responsible Conduct Committee's Conduct Policy at all times.? 4.3 Honesty Be intellectually honest. Describe your accomplishments accurately, and do not take credit for the work of others.? 4.4 Courtesy Treat everyone with respect (including teammates, instructors, advisors, other teams, judges, and Headquarters staff).?

Safety

Keep Your Activities Legal: In most countries, it is illegal to release GMOs or their products into the natural environment without extensive government permits and approvals. Obtaining these permits and approvals would probably take longer than the entire iGEM competition. Instead, you should focus your efforts on producing the best laboratory results. (And, of course, you should not release your GMOs illegally!) Be a Responsible Scientist: There are many extremely complicated risks involved in releasing a genetically modified organism (GMO) outside the lab. Without extensive testing, you cannot know if your GMO is safe for humans and the environment. It would be dangerous, even reckless, to release a GMO without the proper risk assessment and testing. Also, releasing GMOs is a huge international controversy. Because of this controversy, when synthetic biologists seem to act recklessly, they can damage the reputation of the whole field of synthetic biology. As iGEM team members, you are ambassadors between scientists and the public, so it is important that you be excellent scientific citizens!

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