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NEW AND IMPROVED FOR THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

It (Ten tales of Synthetic Biology) is a great way for students to think about broader implications of technology in practice and about how technology assessment can move beyond a narrow consideration of health and safety risks.

Kathy Jo Wetter, author of one of the prefaces of our book

Human Practices Section

Human Practices

Responsible Research and Innovation

Science must be useful to society. Reciprocally, Human Practices approaches should serve scientists, who should not see it as just biosafety warnings, legal limitations or research obstacles. Responsible Research and Innovation deals with Science as a part of the Society, with which a transparent and fruitful feedback is set. We committed to apply such transparency in our project; in our honest notebook; in the form of the biosafety form; a TV-like iGEM news in youtube; and in our wiki.

We have studied all the available bibliography on RRI and prepared the first Report on RRI and Synthetic Biology with a focus on iGEM. We discuss what is RRI, how it relates to new technologies such SB, and why the iGEM competition should pay attention to this brand new way of applying Human Practices to research: with an integrative and positive perspective.

Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology

Once imbibed in RRI, we decided to make an experiment with ourselves: the team was divided in two groups of five students each, and each group was randomly assigned a very optimistic or a very pessimistic view on Synthetic Biology. This yielded our dual book with both the bright and dark side of this new discipline, not unlike R.L. Stevenson “Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde”... We asked an enthusiast of SB, Robert Carlson, to write one of the prefaces, while Kathy Jo Wetter, a member of the ECT group, wrote the other.

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+It (Ten tales of Synthetic Biology) is a great way for students to think about broader implications of technology in practice and about how technology assessment can move beyond a narrow consideration of health and safety risks.
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+<p style="text-align:right;background:rgba(255,255,255,0.8)">Kathy Jo Wetter, author of one of the prefaces of our book</p>
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    <h3>Responsible Research and Innovation</h3>
-     Teams usually think of Human Practices as the study of legal, ethical, moral or biosafety issues. However, our team has found a new an interesting point of
+     Science must be useful to society. Reciprocally, Human Practices approaches should serve scientists, who should not see it as just biosafety warnings,
-view: Responsible Research and Innovation. We committed to apply it from the first day of work to the last, so that, we would be able to show everyone the <b>clarity</b> and <b>openness</b> that characterizes what we have done.
+    legal limitations or research obstacles. Responsible Research and Innovation deals with Science as a part of the Society, with which a transparent and
+fruitful feedback is set. We committed to apply such <a href="#modal_transparency" role="button" data-toggle="modal"><b>transparency</b></a> in our project; in our honest <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Valencia_Biocampus/Notebook"><b>notebook</b></a>; in the form of the <a href="#modal_safety" role="button" data-toggle="modal"><b>biosafety form</b></a>; a TV-like iGEM news in <b>youtube</b>; and in our wiki.
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-     We have written a report on Responsible Research and Innovation, a dialogue between science and society, and we applied its 6 key pillars in the iGEM
+     We have studied all the available bibliography on RRI and prepared the first <a href="#modal_report" role="button" data-toggle="modal"><b>Report on RRI and Synthetic Biology with a focus on iGEM</b></a>. We discuss
-    competition: <b>engagement</b>, <b>gender equity</b>, <b>science education</b>, <b>open access</b>, <b>ethics</b> and <b>governance</b>.
+     what is RRI, how it relates to new technologies such SB, and why the iGEM competition should pay attention to this brand new way of applying Human
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+     Practices to research: with an integrative and positive perspective.
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-	<h3>The survey</h3>
-     Associated to the RRI report we realized an on-line survey to scientifics working in different branches. What we pretended with this was to make them think
-     about what moves them to choose their working projects: the budget, their personal interest, the benefits for society…
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 	<h3><i>Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology</i></h3>
-     We did also write <b><i>Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology</i></b><i>, </i>the first book containing <b>short stories</b><i> </i>based on five <b>positive </b> ideas from five of our students and five <b>negative</b> more of which benefits and problems Synthetic Biology can provide. You can download the book for
+     Once imbibed in RRI, we decided to make an experiment with ourselves: the team was divided in two groups of five students each, and each group was randomly
-     free and draw your own conclusions!
+    assigned a very optimistic or a very pessimistic view on Synthetic Biology. This yielded <a href="#modal_book" role="button" data-toggle="modal"><b>our dual book</b></a> with both the bright and dark side of this
+    new discipline, not unlike R.L. Stevenson “Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde”... We asked an enthusiast of SB, Robert Carlson, to write one of the prefaces, while
+     Kathy Jo Wetter, a member of the ECT group, wrote the other.
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      Safety issues are –or should be- one of the most important parts in each project. Valencia Biocampus team, concerned with that, worked on several aspects
-     of it. We filled up the Basic Safety Form, a second Biosafety Form and we answered the four interesting questions biosafety.
+     of it. We filled up the Basic Safety Form, a second Biosafety Form and we answered the four interesting biosafety questions.
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-			To understand and comprehend what RRI actually means, we have written our own report about what is exactly means. In this report, which you can find and download at the bottom of this page, explores the meaning of RRI in Science in general, in Synthetic Biology and the implications it can have in the iGEM competition.
+		Innovations are global in reach and potential. They are the source of considerable competitive advantages.  The challenge of RRI is achieving a balance between innovation and growth with the need for effective, safe and appropriate products.
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+<br/>
+<p>Going deeper into the iGEM contest we wanted to enhance how different teams from all over the world during these almost 10 years of competition have dealt with the six fundamental keys of RRI. To know more <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/b/b7/RRI-final.pdf">download our RRI report</a>.
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+     <a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2013/b/b7/RRI-final.pdf">Download our RRI Report</a>
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-			Introducción iGEM News
+The iGEM News were conceived as a transparency exercise that our team wanted to do in order to show how our lab journeys were. In our Youtube channel we told our viewers about the development of the project, the results, the collaboration with other teams, we showed them the picture of the day from our Instagram account and some sketches to make our followers feel closer to us. We thought that these iGEM News were the most original and enjoyable way of showing the effort that our team was doing to make our synthetic symbiosis possible.
+Also, we thought that the best way to get in touch with people was to make them understand that they could help young scientists like us through our crowdfunding campaign. We made a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFzEs2DPdIk">video</a> in which we told them about our project and about how important Science is in our lives and the possibilities that Synthetic Biology can offer.
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-	    	In relation to what RRI really is, we thought that asking scientists could be an interesting view of reality. RRI defends the constant dialogue between science and society. But do scientists really listen to what our society needs? We contacted hundreds of scientists from all over the world and from all branches with one simple question: how do you choose your research topic? We sadly concluded that personal interest is the main factor when they have to decide about their research topic. For further conclusions and more details, we invite you to have a look at our survey, which is included in our RRI report that can be downloaded.
+    Beyond our report on Responsible Research and Innovation, the book and our transparency activities, we decided to go one step further: we have chosen eight flagship publications on Synthetic Biology and we have subjected them to the "RRI TEST”. <a href="https://2013.igem.org/Team:Valencia_Biocampus/RRiTest">Here you can see our results</a>.
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+			We have written a book, "Ten Tales on Synthetic Biology", in which we aim to show an utopic point of view but also a catastrophic one. With that, we want to make people aware that the best option would be to do responsible research.
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