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Deutsches Museum Munich

Survey on the public perception of biotechnology

The public perception of biotechnology in Germany is traditionally not very positive. But how much do people know about sythetic biology and are red, white and green biotechnology perceived equally postive or negative? On iGEM day Germany, we set out to inform, explain and investigate. How much impact does the pollution of water through pharmaceuticals and hormones have on people´s private life as well as globally according to public opinion? And would projects like our Physco Filter that adresses these problems increase the acceptance of sythetic biology or not? Would people want to use our filter or support its use in public sewage plants? Here is what we found out:

Auswertung Umfrage

Bilder

13th Munich Science Days

http://www.muenchner-wissenschaftstage.de/2013/front_content.php

Media coverage

Several articles in covered our project:

[http://www.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=185&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=573 TUM WZW News] (german)
[http://www.tip-itp.eu/2013/09/igem-team-tu-munich-visiting-labs-of-the-tip-in-freiburg/ TIP News]

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6327079 Edens et al., 1984

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6327079 Edens et al., 1984 Edens, L., Bom, I., Ledeboer, A. M., Maat, J., Toonen, M. Y., Visser, C., and Verrips, C. T. (1984). Synthesis and processing of the plant protein thaumatin in yeast. Cell, 37(2):629–33.

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 ==Media coverage==
+Several articles in covered our project:
 * [http://www.wzw.tum.de/index.php?id=185&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=573 TUM WZW News] (german)
 * [http://www.tip-itp.eu/2013/09/igem-team-tu-munich-visiting-labs-of-the-tip-in-freiburg/ TIP News]