"
Team:Tyngsboro MA Tigers/Safety
From 2012hs.igem.org
(→Safety) |
(→Safety) |
||
| Line 147: | Line 147: | ||
| - | + | ||
| + | == Safety == | ||
Each member of the Tyngsborough iGEM Tiger Squad has learned and currently follows the Flynn's scientific safety contract. Each year, we take a scientific safety refresher to brush up on our safety procedures. | Each member of the Tyngsborough iGEM Tiger Squad has learned and currently follows the Flynn's scientific safety contract. Each year, we take a scientific safety refresher to brush up on our safety procedures. | ||
| Line 159: | Line 160: | ||
For environmental considerations of our 'machine,' we found no harmful implications. The use of the machine would require no direct contact with the E. coli on the part of the user, and the genetic parts we were combining have no foreseeable negative effects on humans or the environment, using only detectors and the banana scent producing part already discovered and used by MIT. | For environmental considerations of our 'machine,' we found no harmful implications. The use of the machine would require no direct contact with the E. coli on the part of the user, and the genetic parts we were combining have no foreseeable negative effects on humans or the environment, using only detectors and the banana scent producing part already discovered and used by MIT. | ||
| - | |||
| - | |||
== Demonstrating Safety At iGEM == | == Demonstrating Safety At iGEM == | ||
Revision as of 03:33, 15 June 2012
Safety
Each member of the Tyngsborough iGEM Tiger Squad has learned and currently follows the Flynn's scientific safety contract. Each year, we take a scientific safety refresher to brush up on our safety procedures. We were always supervised in our labs by our Team Leader, Ms. Ravgiala.
Click here for a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOQAq4Nl4og link to a funny Youtube video] of what NOT to do in a lab setting. (All credit goes to the producer of the video Zach Lipovsky.)
Click here for the Safety Contract read and signed by all students.
However, given the rather unusual implications of having a synthetic biology club in a high school, we also took many other precautions against harming us and the environment. We always were very careful handling the genetic material, and wore gloves and goggles during any experiments, especially ones involving bacteria. All equipment used, whether it was thrown away or reusable, was cleaned in bleach thoroughly after each time we used it.
For environmental considerations of our 'machine,' we found no harmful implications. The use of the machine would require no direct contact with the E. coli on the part of the user, and the genetic parts we were combining have no foreseeable negative effects on humans or the environment, using only detectors and the banana scent producing part already discovered and used by MIT.
Demonstrating Safety At iGEM
