Team:Tsinghua-A/Safety

Overview

The team planned and implemented several events concerning the application and field of our project. We focused on fields including transgenesis and genetic therapy, where TALE has been widely used as gene editing tool. Two of our teammates attended as guest lecturers a conference held for leaders in sci-tech education of High school and elementary level students in Beijing. Aside from publicity among high school students and educators, we held two seminars on synthetic biology and systems biology in Tsinghua University. Through heated discussions of the fields and our project itself, we managed to raise public awareness of novel advance in such interdisciplinary subjects. Multiple ethics issues were proposed during the seminars considering current topics in synthetic biology. We also conducted questionnaire survey on these issues later on. Results revealed important information and resolution on such. Ethics problems in genetic editing are researched and discussed in relevant pages.