Team:Leicester/Practices
Human Practises
Human Practises is a major part of our iGEM project. The reason for this is that eventhough the science and the thoery makes sense, we need to establish whether our that the idea is viable in the outside world. This is in respect to understanding what the public think about our project idea but also the concept behind synthetic biology.
To be able to understand this as a team we decided on producing a short survey which asked questioned what our surveyors understood about synthetic biology and Genetically modified organisms (GMOs), we then introduced our idea and asked their opinions on this. We finally asked what the ethical implications of our project would have on the public. Using the survey we also found the best way in which people who have no prior knowledge of synthetic biology Survey
The results of this survey will be published later.