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         <li id="tg3">iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Describe an approach that your team used to address at least one of these questions. Evaluate your approach, including whether it allowed you to answer your question(s), how it influenced the team’s scientific project, and how it might be adapted for others to use (within and beyond iGEM).<div id="g3" style="background-color:#EBEBEB;border-radius:12px;width:90%;margin-top:5px;height:25px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:5px;display:none;"><font style="font-weight:500;font-size:13px;">See our <a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Oxford/policy_and_practices" target="_blank">Policy and Practices page</a> for details on our approach, evaluation and its influence on our project. We have explored a number of different issues, including the problem-solving potential of synthetic biology, matters of practicality of implementing these (including safety), the impact of intellectual property, and the importance of public participation and communication in the development of synbio solutions. These issues were examined as facets of our central question: How can an iGEM project change the real world?<br>
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         <li id="tg3">iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Describe an approach that your team used to address at least one of these questions. Evaluate your approach, including whether it allowed you to answer your question(s), how it influenced the team’s scientific project, and how it might be adapted for others to use (within and beyond iGEM).<div id="g3" style="background-color:#EBEBEB;border-radius:12px;width:90%;margin-top:5px;height:25px;padding-left:10px;padding-right:10px;padding-top:5px;display:none;"><font style="font-weight:500;font-size:13px;">Our team researched how factors beyond the bench can impact the potential of an iGEM project and more broadly synthetic biology to make a positive real world impact. After realising that bioremediation of chlorinated solvents had potential not just as an iGEM project but as a solution to the pollution faced by the Environment Agency, we decided to investigate: How can an iGEM Project change the real world? Our broad approach allowed us to explore many areas as facets of this question, including intellectual property, practicality (including safety), and public participation. The result was a far-reaching Policy and Practices project which impacted on almost all aspects of the scientific project and addressed a question of interest central interest to our scientists and hopefully to other iGEM teams! Our research into Intellectual Property policy strongly influenced our decision to encourage other iGEM teams to use our novel ‘BioBead’ containment system; our research into safety drove the design of the DCMation prototype; our research into the environmental problems posed by chlorinated solvents has constantly guided all aspects of the scientific project. We hope our approach will encourage others to consider the non-scientific factors which impact the success of their project, to take these seriously, and to realise just how much good an iGEM project really can do!
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Medal Fulfilment



Click a tick box for details!
Bronze Medal Requirements:
  • Team registration.
  • Team Wiki.
  • Present a poster and a talk at the iGEM Jamboree.
  • The description of each project must clearly attribute work done by the students and distinguish it from work done by others, including host labs, advisors, instructors, sponsors, professional website designers, artists, and commercial services.
  • Document at least one new standard BioBrick Part or Device used in your project/central to your project and submit this part to the iGEM Registry.


Silver Medal Requirements: In addition to the Bronze Medal requirements,
  • Experimentally validate that at least one new BioBrick Part or Device of your own design and construction works as expected.
  • Document the characterization of this part in the “Main Page” section of that Part’s/Device’s Registry entry.
  • Submit this new part to the iGEM Parts Registry (submissions must adhere to the iGEM Registry guidelines).
  • iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Articulate at least one question encountered by your team, and describe how your team considered the(se) question(s) within your project. Include attributions to all experts and stakeholders consulted.


Gold Medal Requirements: In addition to the Bronze and Silver Medal requirements,
  • Improve the function OR characterization of an existing BioBrick Part or Device (created by another team or your own institution in a previous year), enter this information in the Registry.
  • Help any registered iGEM team from another school or institution by, for example, characterizing a part, debugging a construct, or modeling or simulating their system.
  • iGEM projects involve important questions beyond the bench, for example relating to (but not limited to) ethics, sustainability, social justice, safety, security, or intellectual property rights. Describe an approach that your team used to address at least one of these questions. Evaluate your approach, including whether it allowed you to answer your question(s), how it influenced the team’s scientific project, and how it might be adapted for others to use (within and beyond iGEM).