Safety
CONSIDERING RESEARCHER SAFETY
The Wellesley Desyne team is a computational team, and worked on designing software to improve clarity and efficiency in designing biological parts.
CONSIDERING PUBLIC SAFETY
CONSIDERING ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
In addition to wet lab training, the Wellesley Desyne team consulted various
experts in the field of synthetic biology to help aid us in our design and implementation process. These experts ranged from synthetic biology instructors to researchers to professors, all who informed us on the ethics, biosafety, and biosecurity of putting our projects together and then testing with human users. The questions and concerns raised in our dialogue with domain experts informed our design process greatly, and also made us realize that greater education and public awareness about synthetic biology was needed. As a result, careful considering was given to how we wanted to implement our projects.
SAFETY ISSUE CONCERNS
Because we are a computational team, we did not create and BioBricks devices. Instead, we simulated the hierarchical creation of these devices in
Eugenie. While we did not create concrete biological parts, our efforts indirectly inspire safer creation of BioBricks in the future.
KEEPING OURSELVES AND OUR USERS SAFE
The Institutional Biosafety Committee, under the
Wellesley College Office of Environmental Healthy & Safety regulates biosafety concerns on campus. However, we are a computational team and do not work with biological organisms or hazards in our local lab environment.
WORKING FOR THE FUTURE
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