Team:Tokyo Tech/safety

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iGEM Tokyo Tech 2010 "E.coli with Humanity"

Q&A

For iGEM 2010 teams are asked to detail how they approached any issues of biological safety associated with their projects. Specifically, teams should consider the following four questions:

Q1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of researcher safety, public safety or environmental safety ?

A1. For review of our applications by a local biosafety group, researcher safety, public safety and environmental safety are evaluated.
In this meaning, our answer is all YES.

Q2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes,

A2.No. Our parts are of safety level one and two. We used genes which are analyzed in peer-reviewed papers.

Q3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?

A3. Yes

If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?

The biosafety committee of our organization accepted our applications. They think our project is legal.

Q4. Do you have any other ideas how 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

A4.Put document number of a review sheet from the local biosafety group.

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+==Q&A==
+For iGEM 2010 teams are asked to detail how they approached any issues of biological safety associated with their projects.
+Specifically, teams should consider the following four questions:
-==Public Safety==
+Q1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of researcher safety, public safety or environmental safety ?
-We made sure that our project itself wont cause any kind of danger toward the public.
-Even if the circuit we built work disorderly, it wont cause any kind of biohazard.
-==Researchers' safety==
+A1. For review of our applications by a local biosafety group, researcher safety, public safety and environmental safety are evaluated.<br>
-For conducting experiments safely, we made an agreement within our team as follows:
+In this meaning, our answer is all YES.
-===1.Time restriction===
+Q2. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes,
-All  of our experiments were held in the time zone of A.M5:00 to P.M22:00, for midnight experiments could be a major cause of accident.
-We planned our experiments to meet this rule and made sure all the experiments never to be held in distracted mind.
+A2.No. Our parts are of safety level one and two. We used genes which are analyzed in peer-reviewed papers.
-===2.Outfits===
+Q3. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
-In Bioengineering experiments, we always have to be aware of the fact that we're handling genetically modified organisms,and there's always danger of the outburst of genetically engineered organisms outside the laboratory if enough attention is paid by the researchers. We always sterilized our hands by alcohol before/after the experiment, and changed our shoes when getting in/out the laboratory.
-Of course, experimental-appropriate outfits were chosen in the whole period in iGEM.
+A3. Yes
+:If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project?
+:The biosafety committee of our organization accepted our applications. They think our project is legal.
+Q4. Do you have any other ideas how 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
+A4.Put document number of a review sheet from the local biosafety group.
-===3.Disposal of chemicals/samples===
-All the used-cultures were autoclaved in prior to disposal. Also danger chemicals(e.g. organic chemicals) were collected in tank and appropriately processed.
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