Team:Grenoble-EMSE-LSU/Documentation/Safety/KR

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<p>The projects that are made possible by iGEM are incredible in their variety and potential. While some make their bacteria smell like <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006/Blurb">bananas</a>, others have worked on astrobiology, laying down the foundations for creating <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Stanford-Brown">micro-organisms that can tolerate the extreme conditions of space</a>. Others yet are inventing new ways to combat <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:HKUST-Hong_Kong">real world diseases</a> or energy problems. What needs to be remembered is that even the banana project raises safety issues, for example the possible dissemination of genetically modified organisms in the environment. This is something that is required by the other projects mentioned above, if they were ever used in an industrial context, away from their origins in tightly controlled research environments.</p>  
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<p>The projects that are made possible by iGEM are incredible in their variety and potential. While some make their bacteria smell like <a href="http://openwetware.org/wiki/IGEM:MIT/2006/Blurb">bananas</a>, others have worked on astrobiology, laying down the foundations for creating <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Stanford-Brown">micro-organisms that can tolerate the extreme conditions of space</a>. Others yet are inventing new ways to combat <a href="https://2012.igem.org/Team:Slovenia">real world diseases</a> or <a href="https://2011.igem.org/Team:Washington">energy problems</a>. What needs to be remembered is that even the banana project raises safety issues, for example the possible dissemination of genetically modified organisms in the environment. This dissemination is something that is required by the other projects mentioned above, if they were ever used in an industrial context, away from their origins in tightly controlled research environments.<br><br>
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This is why safety considerations and an analysis of consequences need to be taken into account, should biological material from the lab be released into the environment. In the case of our project, we analyse each individual part in terms of safety issues and try to imagine how they could interact with the environment if they should ever be accidentally or intentionally released.</p>  
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