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The project Safety considerations The Redoxilator construct applies only to S. cerevisiae which is generally regarded as safe (GRAS), and moreover one of the best characterized industrial organisms. This fact alone eliminates most safety issues. It is of course possible to produce mildly toxic compounds if one so desires, and applying the Redoxilator, this can be done at higher rates. However, it is more likely than not that the production strain will be damaged in the process, making it very hard to produce toxic compouds, and thus jeopardizing researcher safety. Therefore, if standard safety protocols for genetic engineering of production organisms are followed, the Redoxilator cannot be considered to elevate researcher safety issues. |
Synthetic Biology “Synthetic Biology is an art of engineering new biological systems that don’t exist in nature.” -Paras Chopra & Akhil Kamma In nature, biological molecules work together in complex systems to serve purposes of the cell. In synthetic biology these molecules are used as individual functional units that are combined to form tailored systems exhibiting complex dynamical behaviour. From ‘design specifications’ generated from computational modelling, engineering-based approaches enables the construction of such new specified gene-regulatory networks. The ultimate goal of synthetic biology is to construct systems that gain new functions, and the perspectives of the technology are enormous. It has already been used in several medical projects2 and is predicted to play a major role in biotech-production and environmental aspects. |
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