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| − | <p>Please visit the Safety Hub to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM.</p>
| + | Laboratory equipment can be dangerous if users are unaware of the potential safety hazard. Thus, we make sure our lab members know what’s happening in a machine (for example, electron current over 100v is running in a electrophoresis machine). Before the horseshoe crabs are saved, make sure no one is hurt. |
| − | | + | Safety Considerations of our Project Design |
| − | <p>On this page of your wiki, you should write about how you are addressing any safety issues in your project. The wiki is a place where you can go beyond the questions on the safety forms, and write about whatever safety topics are most interesting in your project. (You do not need to copy your safety forms onto this wiki page.)</p>
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| − | | + | We didn’t use any actual horseshoe crabs for our project and our work has been solely done solely on Bacteria E. Coli and Bacillus subtilis 3NA. |
| − | <p>Safe Project Design</p>
| + | Some strains of E. Coli can sometimes cause food poisoning. Considering the potential detrimental health effect, we used E. Coli strain DH5-alpha, which is unharmful for human. |
| − | <p>Does your project include any safety features? Have you made certain decisions about the design to reduce risks? Write about them here! For example:</p>
| + | The other strain of bacteria that we frequently work with is Bacillus Subtilis 3NA, which is also not considered pathogenic to human. |
| − | | + | Our used plates are disposed in bio-hazard and our cell cultures are bleached to avoid the spreading of laboratory anti-biotic and bacteria. |
| − | <p>Choosing a non-pathogenic chassis
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| − | Choosing parts that will not harm humans / animals / plants
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| − | Substituting safer materials for dangerous materials in a proof-of-concept experiment</p>
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| − | <p>Including an "induced lethality" or "kill-switch" device</p>
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| − | <p>Safe Lab Work</p>
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| − | <p>What safety procedures do you use every day in the lab? Did you perform any unusual experiments, or face any unusual safety issues? Write about them here!</p>
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| − | <p>Safe Shipment</p>
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| − | <p>Did you face any safety problems in sending your DNA parts to the Registry? How did you solve those problems?</p>
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| | + | Lab Safety: |
| | + | Although we don’t wear lab coat and goggles for most of the time, we do have some rules on attire. We wear closed-toed shoes and wash our hands when we are about to eat or leave the lab. |
| | + | In additions, we don’t eat/drink on the bench, we clean up the bench after each day and we never stick our fingers into a running gel. |
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Revision as of 01:38, 7 October 2018
Laboratory equipment can be dangerous if users are unaware of the potential safety hazard. Thus, we make sure our lab members know what’s happening in a machine (for example, electron current over 100v is running in a electrophoresis machine). Before the horseshoe crabs are saved, make sure no one is hurt.
Safety Considerations of our Project Design
Organisms:
We didn’t use any actual horseshoe crabs for our project and our work has been solely done solely on Bacteria E. Coli and Bacillus subtilis 3NA.
Some strains of E. Coli can sometimes cause food poisoning. Considering the potential detrimental health effect, we used E. Coli strain DH5-alpha, which is unharmful for human.
The other strain of bacteria that we frequently work with is Bacillus Subtilis 3NA, which is also not considered pathogenic to human.
Our used plates are disposed in bio-hazard and our cell cultures are bleached to avoid the spreading of laboratory anti-biotic and bacteria.
Lab Safety:
Although we don’t wear lab coat and goggles for most of the time, we do have some rules on attire. We wear closed-toed shoes and wash our hands when we are about to eat or leave the lab.
In additions, we don’t eat/drink on the bench, we clean up the bench after each day and we never stick our fingers into a running gel.
