Team:Edinburgh OG/Safety

Safety

We considered safety at all stages of our project. As we proposed an at-the-source solution for the problem of dye contamination, we knew that containment and safety of any possible system would be paramount. This partly inspired the 'ghost shell' immobilisation sub project, which uses a phage-derived lysis protein to kill cells that have anchored dye-degrading enzymes present within the cell. This is also one of the reasons brought up in our meeting with Carbogenics, where they advised even if the cells were dead there would still be the antibiotic resistance genes within the cell. This is why we decided to purify the laccase enzyme.