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− | <p>On saturday the 22nd of August from 9 am to 4 pm, we held a stand in Rue Haldimand in our town Lausanne. Passerby came and went from and to the market and many of them were intrigued by our poster asking “What is synthetic biology ? Give us your opinion !”. We submitted them our survey and took the opportunity to answer questions about synthetic biology, iGEM and our project. About fifty people stopped by, talking with them was very interesting and open-minding. | + | <p>On saturday the 22nd of August from 9 am to 4 pm, we held a stand in Rue Haldimand in our town Lausanne. Passerby came and went from and to the market and many of them were intrigued by our poster asking “What is synthetic biology ? Give us your opinion !”. We submitted them our survey and took the opportunity to answer questions about synthetic biology, iGEM and our project. About fifty people stopped by, talking with them was very interesting and open-minding.</p> |
− | To begin with our investigations of the following matters : communication, interaction and responsibility in scientific research, we decided to ask the general public about it. On saturday the 22nd of August from 9 am to 4 pm, we held a stand in Rue Haldimand in our dear town Lausanne. Passerby came and went from and to the market and many of them were intrigued by our poster asking “What is synthetic biology ? Give us your opinion !”. This allowed us to better spot the expectations that people have towards the scientific community as well as opening our minds to views we are not used to meet as scientific students. It was also an opportunity to introduce synthetic biology to those who did not know about it. Here is a summary of the survey and an analysis of the most interesting results. | + | |
− | We began by asking the subject whether he/she had ever heard about synthetic biology, and if the answer is no, we provided him/her with the Wikipedia definition: “Synthetic biology is a scientific field combining biology and engineering in order to design and build (synthesize) new biologic systems and units”. Note that the definition does not mention the word GMO, as this has its importance later on. It was clear to us that synthetic biology still is not a popular expression, as most people had never heard about it. | + | <p>To begin with our investigations of the following matters : communication, interaction and responsibility in scientific research, we decided to ask the general public about it. On saturday the 22nd of August from 9 am to 4 pm, we held a stand in Rue Haldimand in our dear town Lausanne. Passerby came and went from and to the market and many of them were intrigued by our poster asking “What is synthetic biology ? Give us your opinion !”. This allowed us to better spot the expectations that people have towards the scientific community as well as opening our minds to views we are not used to meet as scientific students. It was also an opportunity to introduce synthetic biology to those who did not know about it. Here is a summary of the survey and an analysis of the most interesting results.</p> |
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| + | <p>We began by asking the subject whether he/she had ever heard about synthetic biology, and if the answer is no, we provided him/her with the Wikipedia definition: “Synthetic biology is a scientific field combining biology and engineering in order to design and build (synthesize) new biologic systems and units”. Note that the definition does not mention the word GMO, as this has its importance later on. It was clear to us that synthetic biology still is not a popular expression, as most people had never heard about it. |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloribus alias natus, excepturi tenetur explicabo tempora. Hic aliquid tempora vero esse quam veniam sint ipsa fugiat eveniet, enim, nihil, placeat. Adipisci odio libero nisi molestias, totam obcaecati ea praesentium facere doloribus, architecto at accusamus quis? Cum eum, perferendis incidunt asperiores eaque neque quia odit beatae, corrupti, debitis assumenda vel quidem explicabo autem fugiat cupiditate molestias obcaecati. Quod velit iste ea. Tenetur illum harum error commodi molestiae velit ipsam labore quasi. Distinctio natus est sed sunt veritatis omnis, ipsa dolore enim magnam quisquam temporibus nemo quam alias, non, accusamus, nesciunt autem aperiam.</p> | + | <p>We then asked the subject whether this definition gave him/her a rather positive or negative feeling about synthetic biology. The answers were enthusiastic, with a vast majority of “rather positive”. The interesting thing is that after several questions which content we will analyze later, our last question was: “What is your opinion on GMOs (or Genetically Modified Organisms)?”, to which we mostly got “Rather negative” as an answer. </p> |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloribus alias natus, excepturi tenetur explicabo tempora. Hic aliquid tempora vero esse quam veniam sint ipsa fugiat eveniet, enim, nihil, placeat. Adipisci odio libero nisi molestias, totam obcaecati ea praesentium facere doloribus, architecto at accusamus quis? Cum eum, perferendis incidunt asperiores eaque neque quia odit beatae, corrupti, debitis assumenda vel quidem explicabo autem fugiat cupiditate molestias obcaecati. Quod velit iste ea. Tenetur illum harum error commodi molestiae velit ipsam labore quasi. Distinctio natus est sed sunt veritatis omnis, ipsa dolore enim magnam quisquam temporibus nemo quam alias, non, accusamus, nesciunt autem aperiam.</p> | + | <p>We found it interesting to compare the results of these two diagrams, as they perfectly reflect the misconception people have of the word GMO. We discussed these results with the experts we interviewed, you can read about it in our main article.</p> |
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| + | <p>The next thing we wanted to know was whether the subject felt a good enough interaction with the scientific world. The answers we got show pretty clearly that it is not the case. |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloribus alias natus, excepturi tenetur explicabo tempora. Hic aliquid tempora vero esse quam veniam sint ipsa fugiat eveniet, enim, nihil, placeat. Adipisci odio libero nisi molestias, totam obcaecati ea praesentium facere doloribus, architecto at accusamus quis? Cum eum, perferendis incidunt asperiores eaque neque quia odit beatae, corrupti, debitis assumenda vel quidem explicabo autem fugiat cupiditate molestias obcaecati. Quod velit iste ea. Tenetur illum harum error commodi molestiae velit ipsam labore quasi. Distinctio natus est sed sunt veritatis omnis, ipsa dolore enim magnam quisquam temporibus nemo quam alias, non, accusamus, nesciunt autem aperiam.</p> | + | <p>For more about the matter of interaction between the scientific world and the general public, please read our main article.</p> |
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| + | <p>We also wanted to know who, according to the general public, is really responsible for the outcomes of scientific research, and how the subsequent technologies are used. The subject could choose several answers. |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloribus alias natus, excepturi tenetur explicabo tempora. Hic aliquid tempora vero esse quam veniam sint ipsa fugiat eveniet, enim, nihil, placeat. Adipisci odio libero nisi molestias, totam obcaecati ea praesentium facere doloribus, architecto at accusamus quis? Cum eum, perferendis incidunt asperiores eaque neque quia odit beatae, corrupti, debitis assumenda vel quidem explicabo autem fugiat cupiditate molestias obcaecati. Quod velit iste ea. Tenetur illum harum error commodi molestiae velit ipsam labore quasi. Distinctio natus est sed sunt veritatis omnis, ipsa dolore enim magnam quisquam temporibus nemo quam alias, non, accusamus, nesciunt autem aperiam.</p> | + | <p>We were quite surprised by these results, as in Switzerland, direct democracy and referendums allow the whole population to vote on very specific questions, scientific topics included. And research in synthetic biology could have come to an end if in 1998, the federal popular initiative “for the protection of life and the environment against gene manipulations (initiative for genetic protection)” had been accepted, indeed: production, acquisition and handing-over of any genetically modified animal would have been prohibited. To us, seeing the people delegate the responsibility to researchers is the consequence of a lack of interaction. The subject of interaction is further explored in our main article.</p> |
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| + | <p>Next, we quickly described the purpose of the iGEM competition, and we exposed the main idea behind our project (building independent transistors in cells). We then introduced some examples of organisms that could be designed using our project, or synthetic biology in general. Some were past iGEM projects, some we imagined ourselves, and they covered a lot of different domains suck as energy, agriculture, medicine and information processing. |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Assumenda, dolorem ipsam quia ipsum vero minus possimus veritatis molestiae voluptatem provident explicabo, voluptates consequuntur sapiente nobis modi nesciunt hic velit quasi sint doloribus, accusamus incidunt. Voluptate, enim molestiae assumenda vel provident facere, esse saepe, et deleniti eius sapiente debitis modi nostrum.</p> | + | <p>The only organism that gathered a vast majority of negative answers was the “Wheat strain capable of adapting to climatic conditions”. To us this is also linked to the associations between GMOs and agriculture.</p> |
| + | <p>In order to better understand what exactly was worrying the general public about the usage of synthetic biology, we asked the subject to pick his/her main concerns in the following list: ethics, environment, social, national security, religion and health. Several answers were allowed. The most chosen answer was “environment”. Again, we can observe this association between synthetic biology and environment. “Ethics” only differs by a few answers. |
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− | <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Doloribus alias natus, excepturi tenetur explicabo tempora. Hic aliquid tempora vero esse quam veniam sint ipsa fugiat eveniet, enim, nihil, placeat. Adipisci odio libero nisi molestias, totam obcaecati ea praesentium facere doloribus, architecto at accusamus quis? Cum eum, perferendis incidunt asperiores eaque neque quia odit beatae, corrupti, debitis assumenda vel quidem explicabo autem fugiat cupiditate molestias obcaecati. Quod velit iste ea. Tenetur illum harum error commodi molestiae velit ipsam labore quasi. Distinctio natus est sed sunt veritatis omnis, ipsa dolore enim magnam quisquam temporibus nemo quam alias, non, accusamus, nesciunt autem aperiam.</p> | + | <p>Also, we included a question coming from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ) which intended to determine what was most important between sensitivity and specificity in cancer diagnosis. The results show mixed feelings, and people often took some time to think before answering.</p> |
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