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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Environmental safety is a huge concern for us. Just as we don't want toluene soil contamination finding its way into water supplies, we don't want our device replicating in the environment when its job of metabolizing the toluene is done, or if it migrates away from the toluene contamination. That's why we are engineering toluene-sensitive suicide mechanisms into our device to destroy it in the absence of toluene. Before it can actually be used for environmental cleanup, we would like to engineer a series of redundant kill switches to cover the possibility of loss-of-function mutations in any of the kill-switch mechanisms.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Environmental safety is a huge concern for us. Just as we don't want toluene soil contamination finding its way into water supplies, we don't want our device replicating in the environment when its job of metabolizing the toluene is done, or if it migrates away from the toluene contamination. That's why we are engineering toluene-sensitive suicide mechanisms into our device to destroy it in the absence of toluene. Before it can actually be used for environmental cleanup, we would like to engineer a series of redundant kill switches to cover the possibility of loss-of-function mutations in any of the kill-switch mechanisms.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On a national level, our project would need oversight by the EPA and perhaps other governmental regulatory agencies. On a more local scale, we had a conversation with Dr. Mike Imperiale from the U of M Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology about biosafety and biosecurity, and where he thought synthetic biology is and will be going in terms of biosafety and biosecurity.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>On a national level, our project would need oversight by the EPA and perhaps other governmental regulatory agencies. On a more local scale, we had a conversation with Dr. Mike Imperiale from the U of M Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology about biosafety and biosecurity, and where he thought synthetic biology is and will be going in terms of biosafety and biosecurity.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Ifaulknrhttp://2009.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Team:Michigan/Safety&diff=165770&oldid=prevIfaulknr at 02:34, 22 October 20092009-10-22T02:34:53Z<p></p>
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</table>Ifaulknrhttp://2009.igem.org/wiki/index.php?title=Team:Michigan/Safety&diff=165625&oldid=prevIfaulknr at 02:31, 22 October 20092009-10-22T02:31:08Z<p></p>
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