Biosafety

safety issues

No issues of researcher safety, public safety or environmental safety were raised during Debrecen's iGEM 2010 project. We only worked with non-hazardous, non-infectious, commonly used and accepted bacteria strain (DH5α) and mammalian cancer cell lines (HeLa). When working with toxic chemicals (e.g. ethidiumbromide or estrogen), nitrile gloves, and white coat were worn. We specifically reserved an area of our lab for work with ethidiumbromide. All work was conducted in a biosafety level S1 laboratory. Rules of best microbiological practices were applied.

Group Biosafty Supervision

there is a project leader for biological safety issues for the group that advised us. There is also a biosafety supervisor who supervises biological safety university-wide.

Safety Standards

All material handled or distributed are non-hazardous and non-infectious. It agrees with all safety standards requested biosafety level 1, therfore the project get a full supports for the work done by the iGEM team.

safety issues for our new biobrick parts

we developed synthetic DBD's for use in mammalian cells and fusion parts. These parts are completely harmless, no matter what organism they are transformed / transfected into.