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| - | A: This year UNIPV-Pavia Team project focuses on transforming the lactose of whey into ethanol to give it a second life and to transform a waste into something useful. None of the ideas we investigated raised safety issues, except for typical safety concerns addressed in every molecular biology lab. We see synthetic biology as an opportunity, for this reason we would not have realized a project dangerous for the community or the environment. On the contrary it should provide a positive contribute to the environment and the pollution thanks to the production of a fuel by | + | A: This year UNIPV-Pavia Team project focuses on transforming the lactose of whey into ethanol to give it a second life and to transform a waste into something useful. None of the ideas we investigated raised safety issues, except for typical safety concerns addressed in every molecular biology lab. We see synthetic biology as an opportunity, for this reason we would not have realized a project dangerous for the community or the environment. On the contrary it should provide a positive contribute to the environment and the pollution thanks to the production of a fuel by renewable sources. Moreover we engineered E.coli TOP10 strain that is completely safe (biosafety=1) if properly handled both for researchers and public, and commonly used in biological laboratories. |
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Q: Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of researcher safety, public safety, or environmental safety? A: This year UNIPV-Pavia Team project focuses on transforming the lactose of whey into ethanol to give it a second life and to transform a waste into something useful. None of the ideas we investigated raised safety issues, except for typical safety concerns addressed in every molecular biology lab. We see synthetic biology as an opportunity, for this reason we would not have realized a project dangerous for the community or the environment. On the contrary it should provide a positive contribute to the environment and the pollution thanks to the production of a fuel by renewable sources. Moreover we engineered E.coli TOP10 strain that is completely safe (biosafety=1) if properly handled both for researchers and public, and commonly used in biological laboratories.
A: There is a biosafety board in our lab and also in our University Università degli Studi di Pavia biosafety department.
A: Since standard safety routine were enough for our work, the biosafety board approved our project without any particular restriction. It took care to train students in using devices and instruments following all safety prescriptions. In particular, we have managed ethidium bromide, sulfuric acid 97%, potassium dichromate, 3-n-butyl-phosphate and IPTG following all safety prescritions.
A: All our BioBricks are safe and do not raise any safety issue since they do not produce or have been produced using plasmids/bacterial strains containing toxins or pathogenetic factors. |
