Q1:

Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety?

The biological materials used in our project are not related to pathogenicity and/or toxicity. The organism that we worked with in this project include non-pathogenic strains of E. coli, DH5α, which belongs to Risk Group 1 (no or low individual and community risk): a microorganism that is unlikely to cause human or animal disease. E. coli, DH5α has been widely used in the field of synthetic biology and its safety has long been proved. In order to test the tool system we developed, we also work on CHO cells, Chinese Hamster Ovary cells, which is widely used in genetic engineering and pharmaceutical field and proved to be safe. The coding that we inserted in to the CHO cells are basic standardized parts of GFP and RFP, which will not in any way raise safety concerns.

Team:Nanjing NFLS/safety.html

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