Team:UCL/Notebook/March

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March

Final few meetings were held before exams, both within UCL and at the Arts Catalyst. The most popular projects were brought forward and were narrowed down to the following:

• Anti-cancer yoghurt

• Zebrafish

• Alzheimer's disease

• Neural Network

The team held a probiotic yoghurt workshop for the anti-cancer project. During this members of the public were allowed to make their very own yoghurt. Project opinions were gathered. Ethical concerns regarding the Alzheimer's project were frequently raised during the workshop. As a result, the team came to the conclusion that bioethics would play a large role within the project.

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-Final meetings before exams, both internally and at the Arts Catalyst. In the meantime we had taken on board our feedback, and took the best ideas from each of the most popular project to come up with a new idea that combined tackling a medical condition, with neuroscience, with using a novel chassis in an Alzheimer's disease project. The idea pool has now been narrowed down to:
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-Members of the group also held a probiotic yoghurt workshop for the anti-cancer project, where members of the public made yoghurt. The audience were informed about the project and opinions were gathered. Again, the fact that the porject was medical was well received, though some ethical concerns were raised so that we knew we would have to make bioethics a big part of our project from the start.
+The team held a probiotic yoghurt workshop for the anti-cancer project. During this members of the public were allowed to make their very own yoghurt. Project opinions were gathered. Ethical concerns regarding the Alzheimer's project were frequently raised during the workshop. As a result, the team came to the conclusion that bioethics would play a large role within the project.
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