Human practice as a key component of an iGEM project played also an important role in our work. The DiaCHIP should be available for everyone even accessible in tropical or arid regions. Precisely because of that feature we wanted to know how the DiaCHIP is perceived in public. Therefore we carried out a survey to evaluate the necessity and acceptance of our project.
When somebody is working in the field of Synthetic Biology it is inevitable for the researcher to deal with some ethical questions. Therefore we had a meeting with the ethics committee (PD Dr. J. Boldt) to evaluate our project and ethics in SynBio in general.
Besides this important part we educated the public about Synthetic Biology and gave interested pedestrians an deeper insight in into the molecular biology as well into our project at this years Freiburg sience fair. Additionally we gave a class of Liberal Arts and Sciences students a lecture about Synthetic Biology and iGEM competition in general.
Finally we participate in an Europe-wide theater project in the framework of SYNENERGENE called “Re-engineering life or Do we want to be unlimited” as experts with scientific background.