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<p>April 16 2013, a postgraduate student named Huang Yang from Fudan University died of poisoning in Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital. According to the report of the police's investigation, a toxic chemical compound was found in the drinking water dispenser in Huang's dormitory room, and this toxic chemical compoud is taken out of a laboratory.</p> | <p>April 16 2013, a postgraduate student named Huang Yang from Fudan University died of poisoning in Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital. According to the report of the police's investigation, a toxic chemical compound was found in the drinking water dispenser in Huang's dormitory room, and this toxic chemical compoud is taken out of a laboratory.</p> | ||
- | <p>This terrible incident is not a mere coincidence and it reminds us college students of the importance of lab-safety. Our iGEM team believe that apart from ensuring the safety of our lab, we should also appeal to more people to join us in ensuring lab-safety. </p> | + | <p>This terrible incident is not a mere coincidence and it reminds us college students of the importance of lab-safety. Our iGEM team believe that apart from ensuring the safety of our lab, we should also appeal to more people to join us in ensuring lab-safety. Under our advocation, Tianjin University started the “ Lab-Safety Month of Tianjin University”, and a number of activities were held, in which our iGEM team played important roles. </p> |
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<p>We also invited a professional lecturer Mr. Wang Enye from 3M to give us a lecture on Lab hazards and Self Protection. In the lecture, he talked about 4 aspects:basic knowledge about lab hazards and self protection, recognition of lab hazards and risk control, Respiratory hazards and self protection, and eye,face,skin hazards and self protection. The lecturer encapsulated the important technical fundaments of laboratory safety.The emphasis on the fundamentals will help the student and practicing scientist to understand the concepts and apply then accordingly. Some of the lab management officials and student representatives of related departments attended the lecture.</p> | <p>We also invited a professional lecturer Mr. Wang Enye from 3M to give us a lecture on Lab hazards and Self Protection. In the lecture, he talked about 4 aspects:basic knowledge about lab hazards and self protection, recognition of lab hazards and risk control, Respiratory hazards and self protection, and eye,face,skin hazards and self protection. The lecturer encapsulated the important technical fundaments of laboratory safety.The emphasis on the fundamentals will help the student and practicing scientist to understand the concepts and apply then accordingly. Some of the lab management officials and student representatives of related departments attended the lecture.</p> | ||
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<p> Tianjin University made and revised three regulations in Dec, 2012-Tianjin University Lab Management Regulation, Tianjin University Lab-Safety Management Regulation and Tianjin University Lab-Safety Responsibility Regulation. These regulations perfected the regulations related with lab-safety, and helped to build up the lab management system of Tianjin University. Teachers from Tianjin University are now compiling a book named Basic Knowledge of Lab-Safety for College Students. To regulate the use of chemicals in our unversity, an Integrated Management System of Chemicals is also developed. For students whose majors are related with chemicals, they have to be trained about safety rules. Only after passing an lab entrance examination can they enter the labs for studying and working. Besides, postgraduates are equipped with special protection equipments to ensure their personal safety.</p> | <p> Tianjin University made and revised three regulations in Dec, 2012-Tianjin University Lab Management Regulation, Tianjin University Lab-Safety Management Regulation and Tianjin University Lab-Safety Responsibility Regulation. These regulations perfected the regulations related with lab-safety, and helped to build up the lab management system of Tianjin University. Teachers from Tianjin University are now compiling a book named Basic Knowledge of Lab-Safety for College Students. To regulate the use of chemicals in our unversity, an Integrated Management System of Chemicals is also developed. For students whose majors are related with chemicals, they have to be trained about safety rules. Only after passing an lab entrance examination can they enter the labs for studying and working. Besides, postgraduates are equipped with special protection equipments to ensure their personal safety.</p> | ||
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<p> This campaign was the first specific campain focusing on lab-safety in China, and was composed of various activities such as lab-safety lectures, lab escape drills, lab-safety checks top 10 safe labs selection and filming videos about lab-safety. Our iGEM team was responsible of organizing and propagating some of the activities. | <p> This campaign was the first specific campain focusing on lab-safety in China, and was composed of various activities such as lab-safety lectures, lab escape drills, lab-safety checks top 10 safe labs selection and filming videos about lab-safety. Our iGEM team was responsible of organizing and propagating some of the activities. | ||
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<p>No, the strains we introduced for engineering are very common in the lab. Our final works, which produce oil, have no potential to be used for creating either biochemical weapon or ecocatastrophe.</p> | <p>No, the strains we introduced for engineering are very common in the lab. Our final works, which produce oil, have no potential to be used for creating either biochemical weapon or ecocatastrophe.</p> | ||
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<p>If used for large-scale alkanes production, our project would not raise any safety issues, for the organism we are using this year is Escherichia coli which is of limited danger to the environment, and we have taken safety measures to ensure that the device we make would not increase bacterial survival in the case of accidental release. </p> | <p>If used for large-scale alkanes production, our project would not raise any safety issues, for the organism we are using this year is Escherichia coli which is of limited danger to the environment, and we have taken safety measures to ensure that the device we make would not increase bacterial survival in the case of accidental release. </p> | ||
<p>If our method of producing alkanes became widely available, it would be more friendly to the environment compared with traditional chemical methods in that we use renewable carbohydrate as raw materials and waste disposal is largely reduced. Therefore, there wouldn't be any risks to the public and the environment. </p> | <p>If our method of producing alkanes became widely available, it would be more friendly to the environment compared with traditional chemical methods in that we use renewable carbohydrate as raw materials and waste disposal is largely reduced. Therefore, there wouldn't be any risks to the public and the environment. </p> |
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