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Overview

Bacterial Ghost

Background Design Results

The Ghost Kit

Ghost Sensor Ghost Sponge Ghost Shell The Ghost Kit

Characterization

Background Results

Safety

Overview Artificial Shell E.coli Suicide Safety Form

Parts

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Safety: Overview

As one of the most rapidly developing field, synthetic biology has the potential to influence many other field of society. It becomes much easier for synthetic biologists modify changeable parts, assemble them into devices and systems, which do not exist in the nature. These artificial lives may contribute to the society while raising safety issues among the public, fearing that Resident Evil would happen in the real world.

Synthetic biologists have an obligation to make sure that their work does not result in these risks. As a team in the iGEM competition, we are paying special attention to experiment details to avoid biohazards. Our project is unlikely to be harmful since none of the chassis organisms (DH10 beta, BL21 and JW1870) are pathogenic. They are the most widely used strains of E.coli in synthetic biology labs. In addition, the bacterial ghosts formed by these two species stop growing and cannot be harmful when being used. Plus, we also insert a suicide system into the atrazine killer and made a calcium phosphate shell on it to slow down its growth. Thus in general our project is unable to produce a severe biosafety issue.