A Step towards Our Community - The HKUST iGEM 2013 team had three main objectives in mind for human practice: safe application, bio-ethics & bio-safety, and provision of information of synthetic biology for the general public. Each objective was considered carefully and human practice events were developed accordingly to these objectives.
Our team thought that presentation is an effective method to fulfill one of our goals that our human practice team set up: provision of information for the public. Our team originally planned to do one presentation for freshmen school of science students in HKUST, but we ended up being involved in five different presentations. Two of the presentations have already been conducted, while the other three presentations will be conducted after the wiki freeze.
To discuss the possible safe application of our project, we have met with prominent individuals in Hong Kong society. Through the interviews, we could gain better understanding of our project could actually work as a product.
It is necessary to think about how our project could be actually applied. Since gene therapy was mentioned as a mean to deliver our DNA into human liver cells, we thought it was necessary to research on the current gene therapy technology.
This is a novel human practice project that we did. We thought it was necessary to gain information of synthetic biology in Asian countries to have a holistic view of synthetic biology around the world.
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