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1. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of: ・In our project “GSDD”, we try to deal with environmental problems that might be caused by applications of bioengineering technologies to our daily life. Our devised system provides a unique way to control the lifespan of genetically engineered microbes and to thus avoid their deregulated spread.

2. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution? ・Laboratory of Science Communication and Bioethics (which belongs to the Graduate School of Bioscience, Kyoto University) works to make biological researches carried out at our institution transparent to society. For detailed information on their activities, please cite at the web sites below. [http://www.lif.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/modules/content6/index.php?id=15] [http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kato/]

3. What does your local biosafety group think about your project? ・We always counsel our advisor before carrying out the experiments we designed. He knows Mr.Kato, the assistance professor in the lab mentioned above, very well, and he assures that we abide by the guideline proposed by the lab.

4. Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues? ・No, we don’t think so.

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-Our ultimate goal is to make a device which enables us to control exact cell’s life time (or death time) depending on the number of cell division times. If engineered cells have mutation and increase too much, it may cause the unexpected behavior (biohazard) against natural living systems. Our device certainly contributes to prevention of biohazard.What we did in laboratory was completely free of anything harmful for environment and ourselves.
+. Would any of your project ideas raise safety issues in terms of:
-We disposed of wastes such as biohazardous waste properly, and we were careful with toxic material.
+・In our project “GSDD”, we try to deal with environmental problems that might be caused by applications of bioengineering technologies to our daily life.  Our devised system provides a unique way to control the lifespan of genetically engineered microbes and to thus avoid their deregulated spread.
-Biohazard was not caused during our experiment.
+. Is there a local biosafety group, committee, or review board at your institution?
+・Laboratory of Science Communication and Bioethics (which belongs to the Graduate School of Bioscience, Kyoto University) works to make biological researches carried out at our institution transparent to society.  For detailed information on their activities, please cite at the web sites below.
+[http://www.lif.kyoto-u.ac.jp/j/modules/content6/index.php?id=15]
+[http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kato/]
+. What does your local biosafety group think about your project?
+・We always counsel our advisor before carrying out the experiments we designed. He knows Mr.Kato, the assistance professor in the lab mentioned above, very well, and he assures that we abide by the guideline proposed by the lab.
+. Do any of the new BioBrick parts that you made this year raise any safety issues?
+・No, we don’t think so.
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