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Revision as of 15:57, 16 September 2015
Human Practices
Key Achievements
- Comprehensively analysed four chemical processes that make L-DOPA and assessed viability of DopaDoser fermentation in terms of wastes, time and law
- Analysed current treatments and assessed how DopaDoser will improve PD patients’ lives
- Assessed patient, medicine and academia acceptability of DopaDoser in terms of ethics, placebo and medicine characteristics
A very important part of our project is human practice; the iGEM challenge does not only happen in the lab. All teams are encouraged to assess in what way their work will affect not only society but also environment and further scientific work.
For this purpose we discuss our project and its possible effects and applications with people affected by Parkinsons’s disease and scientists of various associated fields like microbiology, biotechnology and medicine. This way we hope to get a closer look at the big picture of public reception and personal and scientific effects of a possible medical treatment like this.
Furthermore we held talks in various schools in Austria and at the open day at the University of Manchester to bring Synthetic Biology at a broad audience and hear feedback on our project ideas. This feedback and people’s opinions were gathered in a survey. In addition we also handed out the survey to our own circle of acquaintances and tried to inform relatives and friends about Synthetic Biology.
Feel free to click through our various human practices projects and enjoy some pictures of us, talking science!
