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1.Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of :
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No, there is no risks to reseachers in experiments we planned. Escherichia coli K-12 substr. MG1655 that we treat is assigned to Biosafety Level 1. According to Table 1 of World Health Organization (WHO) Laboratory biosafety manual, we treat "a microorganism that is unlikely to cause human or animal disease" in an experiment that is assigned to Biosafety Level 1. Therefore, there are few risks in an experiment that we treat Escherichia coli K-12. Actually, it is generally known that Escherichia coli K-12 is not dangerous to humans. And also, we use formaldehyde in our experiment. Formaldehyde is harmful to humans. However, we use a very small quantity of it. We use only 10mM HCHO in 10mM phosphate buffer. Furthermore, we'll not touch formaldehyde if researchers accept a protocol that we made. So formaldehyde doesn’t harm them. If they don't accept the protocol, formaldehyde can harm them. But we tried to remove risks to take following two measures. First, we're lectured on safety by our instructor. We learned notices of safety in experiments, for example taking notes of a procedure before a experiment. We also learned how to treat chemicals. It was useful in experiments that we learned in the lecture. Second, we made a checklist for safety and used it in experiments. We selected points on safety from our experimental protocol, and made these points the checklist. Researchers will not make a mistake by using the checklist in experiments. Making these efforts, we tried to keep human errors to a minimum.
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・public safety, or
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No. We obey a Japanese low called "Act on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biological
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Diversity through Regulations on the Use of Living Modified Organisms" (http://www.bch.biodic.go.jp/download/law/domestic_regulations/070401law_ver6.pdf) when we treat Escherichia coli K-12. If we obey the low, there is no risk to release living modified orKey question 2
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Do any of the new BioBrick parts(or devices) that you made this year
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No.
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iGEM parts. E.coli we used was K-12 and Biosafety level(BSL)1, so as
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ganisms for public. Furthermore, there is no danger if they should be released because Escherichia coli K-12 is not dangerous to humans. On the other side, formaldehyde is harmful for humans. However, we use a very small quantity of it, and it's not released to public if researchers accept a protocol that we made. So formaldehyde is not danger for public. And it has already described what we did to accept the low and the protocol.
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No. Living modified organisms and formaldehyde are not also released to environment if researchers
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obey the low and the protocol. So formaldehyde is not dangerous for environment. And it has already described what we did to accept the low and the protocol to experiment safely.
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<b>■Safety Guide</b><Br>
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We summarized how to be ensured genetic recombination experiment. This guidebook will be important tool lowering the threshold because detail of  process prescribed by the law until beginning to experiment is described easy to understand.<Br>
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This guidebook is available <A Href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2012/c/cb/SafetyGuide.pdf"><b>here</b></A>.<Br>
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<b>■Safety Checklist for the experiment</b><br>
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We planned to make a self assessment for our experience. For that, we made Safety Checklist.<BR>
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The safety of our experience is ensured this checklist.
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Yes, there is a local biosafety group in our institution. We discussed safety of our project with members of it. They accepted our project.
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team over all. And so, we proposed “check list”! We created the check
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danger. Everyone can do experiment thinking about safety by creating
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the check list. And individual the conscious goes up and it’s possible
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Not just check list, we made “safety Guide”! This guide can be
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the experiment was being conducted. We believe that commons can
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On July 11, 2012, our team made a lecture at the career guidance to the 9th graders of Minamitama Metropolitan Secondary School. We described our project and activities of iGEM in the lecture and caught many interests about synthetic biology and iGEM from the future researchers.
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In the one-hour lecture, we talked broadly about of our campus life and then focused on iGEM as an activity example. However, the students had no basic knowledge of synthetic biology. Therefore, began with catchy topics, used easy words besides technical terms and used more figures and illustrations besides long explanations to make the whole lecture more understandable. The reactions of the students were good. They paid good attention to our lecture and some were taking notes. The fact that iGEM is an international competition seemed to attracted their ambition.
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Through this short time, we believe that we were able to make notice the 9th graders that there is a science field called “synthetic biology” and that there is an international competition for synthetic biology students. We gained many attention and interests of the becoming scientists to this field and iGEM.
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Use this page to answer the questions on the  [[Safety | safety page]].
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Latest revision as of 19:24, 26 September 2012



Safety




■Safety Guide

We summarized how to be ensured genetic recombination experiment. This guidebook will be important tool lowering the threshold because detail of process prescribed by the law until beginning to experiment is described easy to understand.

This guidebook is available here.







■Safety Checklist for the experiment

We planned to make a self assessment for our experience. For that, we made Safety Checklist.
The safety of our experience is ensured this checklist.




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