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Safety in iGEM

Safe Project Design

• We choose the pHSE400 as the chassis because it is non-pathogenic
• Our experimental material is Arabidopsis thaliana so it is absolutely safe
• While we proceed gel-electrophoresis, we use ethidium bromide. In order to prevent us from the ethidium bromide pollution, we wore plastic gloves. What's more, we wore surgical masks and latex gloves when we handle the bacteria
• What we have to pay attention to is that we should carefully deal with the seed to prevent the gene dispersal. Make sure the resistant gene won't drift into the weeds.

  Safe Shipment

  We send our biobricks to company for safety identification before we send them.

  Bio safety

  We have plans to make further modifications to the system, adding a toxic gene in between the two target genes in case of super weed caused by genetic drift. In our bettered system, only one herbicide gene is at the risk of drifting because if more genes were to drift into another species, it would definitely include the toxic gene and disrupt the normal life of weeds and thus can't live.