Team:Oxford/MedalFulfilment
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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. | + | <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! |
+ | <br>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. <br> | ||
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