Team:TzuChiU Formosa/Safety

Researcher safety

In our experiment, we used E. coli DH5α as our model to drive our experimental design DH5α was a well know E-coli strain to be harmless. In addition, the genes we constructed were all harmless to human being. A well trained researcher would be safe with basic protection.

Public safety

E. coli strain transfected with constructed genes would not be lysed and produced harmful products under normal situation.

Environmental safety ?

Our device was to create nutrient, and the structure of the final product was equal to the nature compound, so it will not damage environment with the nutrient that already present in nature. The enzyme we produced, CrtEBIY, Holin, Lysozyme, were present in the environment, and need to be produced by induction , Therefore, it can not be made in the natural environment.

Protection of Research:

1. Every researcher must be well trained before carrying out experiment.
2. Before join the iGem team, everyone need to attend the biosafety training lesson.
3. When performing experiments, all researchers must wear gloves, clinical masks, laboratory clothing, and goggles

Biosafety:

Nutrient synthesizer aims to be applied to human body. Therefore, bio-safety for human practice is highly concerned. Since microbe will secrete biofilm that harm human body. In order to misgivings of microbe safety, we create a system may lysis the microbe by itself that decreased the hazardous of our device.