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<h1> Safety </h1>
 
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<p>Please visit <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Safety">the main Safety page</a> to find this year's safety requirements & deadlines, and to learn about safe & responsible research in iGEM.</p>
 
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<p>On this page of your wiki, you should write about how you are addressing any safety issues in your project. The wiki is a place where you can <strong>go beyond the questions on the safety forms</strong>, and write about whatever safety topics are most interesting in your project. (You do not need to copy your safety forms onto this wiki page.)</p>
 
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<h5>Safe Project Design</h5>
 
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<p>Does your project include any safety features? Have you made certain decisions about the design to reduce risks? Write about them here! For example:</p>
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<p>The saftey features of our project:</p>
  
 
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<li>Choosing a non-pathogenic chassis</li>
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<li><i>Thermococcus kodakarensis</i> is nonpathogenic.</li>
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<li>Choosing parts that will not harm humans / animals / plants</li>
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<li><i>Thermococcus kodakarensis</i> is an obligate anaerobe, so it is easily contained under normal conditions</li>
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<li>Substituting safer materials for dangerous materials in a proof-of-concept experiment</li>
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<li>Limonene is a nontoxic chemical, and is used in food products</li>
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<li>Including an "induced lethality" or "kill-switch" device</li>
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<li><i>Thermococcus kodakarensis</i> can only grow above 80&deg;C, so it cannot spread under normal conditions.</li>
 
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<h5>Safe Lab Work</h5>
 
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<p>What safety procedures do you use every day in the lab? Did you perform any unusual experiments, or face any unusual safety issues? Write about them here!</p>
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<p>The lab that we grow <i>Thermococcus kodakarensis</i> in has several anaerobic chambers, which we clean with ethanol every time we work in it. we also decontaminate all equipment that is brought into the chambers, and most commonly used equipment used inside the chamber stay inside of it at all times.</p>
  
 
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Safe Project Design

The saftey features of our project:

  • Thermococcus kodakarensis is nonpathogenic.
  • Thermococcus kodakarensis is an obligate anaerobe, so it is easily contained under normal conditions
  • Limonene is a nontoxic chemical, and is used in food products
  • Thermococcus kodakarensis can only grow above 80°C, so it cannot spread under normal conditions.
Safe Lab Work

The lab that we grow Thermococcus kodakarensis in has several anaerobic chambers, which we clean with ethanol every time we work in it. we also decontaminate all equipment that is brought into the chambers, and most commonly used equipment used inside the chamber stay inside of it at all times.

Safe Shipment

Did you face any safety problems in sending your DNA parts to the Registry? How did you solve those problems?