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Revision as of 01:44, 3 October 2018
Safety
Biosafety is the prevention of exposure to biohazards or pathogen dissemination, concerning on the issues of ecology and hygiene. Human errors, unqualified instruments, poor experimental techniques would all possibly contribute to deficient safety insurance. Typical topics in biosafefy involve the regular conduction of examinations on laboratory settings and machines, a set of strict laboratory guidelines to obey, etc. Working with synthetic biology experiment, especially high-security apparatus and facilities are required to prevent harmful chemicals or engineered organisms from being released accidentally.
Following promise
Biosafety Level of Our Laboratory
With the guidance from iGEM competition and locally safety regulation, and in order to keep our members from bio risks and correspond to the regulations above, our laboratory is ranked as BSL-1. Biosafety Level 2 laboratory generally deal with applicable microorganisms without harmful pathogenic potential on healthy adults. Additionally, all of the parts and species we utilized, which are listed in the chart below, are environmental friendly, not potentially harmful or pathogenic to healthy adult individuals.
Lab Equipment
Our lab is equipped with advanced instruments to ensure safety, including laminar flow hood, autoclaves, and personal protective equipment.
Experiment operation
During the entire experiment, each member strictly followed the criteria as presented:
- Fire, electric heaters and microwaves should not be left unheeded
- Bacteria should be operated in laminar flow hood to secure isolated environment
- Wastes containing living organisms should be autoclaved before throwing away and sent to certain institution for disposal
- Glass apparatus should be disinfected regularly
- Rubber gloves, lab coats, long pants and shoes should be equipped to cover the entire skin when conducting experiment
- Water, fire, electricity and air conditioner should be examined whenever an experiment is suspended
- The laboratory should be cleaned at least once a week
Safety tutoring
Before our team members commenced on the experiment, we have been trained with safety issues systematically. We give sincere thanks to Professor Ren from Shandong University for offering the training session.
Safety concerns of our project
Our project aims to increase the sensitivity and specificity on the testing on HCV in blood. If it is applicable after further evaluation, there will be a significant decrease in the possibility that patients would received infected blood. Thus, our project will add insurance to public hygiene with higher efficiency and lower cost on HCV detection.