Team:Kyoto/Safety

Questions

There are 4 questions in Safety.

Answers

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

A. In the project, we try to deal with environmental problems that might be caused by applications of bioengineering thechnologies to our daily life. Our devised system provides a unique way to control the lifespan of genetically modified bacteria and to thus avoid their deregulated spread.

Q. Do any of the new BioBrick parts (or devices) that you made this year raise any safety issues? If yes, did you document these issues in the Registry? How did you manage to handle the safety issue? How could other teams learn from your experience?

A. No, we don't think so.

Q. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? If yes, what does your local biosafety group think about your project? If no, which specific biosafety rules or guidelines do you have to consider in your country?

A. Laboratory of Science Communication and Bioethics (which belongs to the Graduate School of Bioscience, Kyoto University) works to make biological researches carried out at our institution transparent to society. For detailed information on their activities, please cite at the web sites below.

[http://www.lif.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/modules/content6/index.php?id=15] [http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kato/]

Q. 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?

A. No, we don’t think so.