Team:TecCEM/Safety

Safety

Please visit the Safety Hub to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM.

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.)

Lab work and project safety have to be carefully measured and taken seriously by everyone involved when performing experiments, precautions have to be carried out taking note of all the safety protocols involved. Since all our parts were designed to be specific and effective into cell lines, the only precautions that it needed were minimal as it’s only level 1 for safety measures. All the strains used come from E. coli strain and were inactivated as the safety protocols indicate.

Safe Project Design

Does your project include any safety features? Have you made certain decisions about the design to reduce risks? Write about them here! For example:

• Choosing a non-pathogenic chassis
• Choosing parts that will not harm humans / animals / plants
• Substituting safer materials for dangerous materials in a proof-of-concept experiment
• Including an "induced lethality" or "kill-switch" device

Safe Lab Work

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!

Safe Shipment

Did you face any safety problems in sending your DNA parts to the Registry? How did you solve those problems?