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At iGEM we believe societal considerations should be upfront and integrated throughout the design and execution of synthetic biology projects. “Human Practices” refers to iGEM teams’ efforts to actively consider how the world affects their work and the work affects the world. Through your Human Practices activities, your team should demonstrate how you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your project is responsible and good for the world. We invite you to explore issues relating (but not limited) to the ethics, safety, security, and sustainability of your project, and to show how this exploration feeds back into your project purpose, design and execution.
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices">Human Practices Hub</a>. There you will find:</p>
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<li> an <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices/Introduction">introduction</a> to Human Practices at iGEM </li>
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<li>descriptions of <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Human_Practices/Examples">exemplary work</a> to inspire you</li>
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<p>On this page, your team should document all of your Human Practices work and activities. You should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, document any activities you conducted to explore these topics (such as engaging with experts and stakeholders), describe why you took a particular approach (including referencing any work you built upon), and explain if and how you integrated takeaways from your Human Practices work back into your project purpose, design and/or execution. </p>
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<p>If your team has gone above and beyond in work related to safety, then you should document this work on your Safety wiki page and provide a description and link on this page. If your team has developed education and public engagement efforts that go beyond a focus on your particular project, and for which would like to nominate your team for the Best Education and Public Engagement Special Prize, you should document this work on your Education and Education wiki page and provide a description and link here. </p>
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<p><b class="Jpink">C</b>hina has been suffering from serious influenza outbreak since the winter of 2017. Also, China is one of the ten countries with the highest mortality caused by pneumococcus among children under the age of five. And compared with the first type of vaccine, the vaccination rate of the second type of vaccine is still very low. However, the vaccination rate in China is only 2%, and the public lacks cognition on the importance of vaccination as well as the associated knowledge. We are thus motivated to conduct HP on disseminating vaccine related information to the public and surveying people from different social status on their view towards the practical importance of our project, with the aim of enhancing people’ cognition on vaccination and deepening our own understandings on why and how to carry out this project. </p>
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<p><b class="Jpink">T</b>o see more details about Human Practices of Jiangnan, please follow:<br>
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<a href="https://2018.igem.org/Team:Jiangnan/Silver" style="color:#039be5;">Silver</a><br>
<p>The iGEM judges will review this page to assess whether you have met the Silver and/or Gold medal requirements based on the Integrated Human Practices criteria listed below. If you nominate your team for the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Awards">Best Integrated Human Practices Special Prize</a> by filling out the corresponding field in the <a href="https://2018.igem.org/Judging/Judging_Form">judging form</a>, the judges will also review this page to consider your team for that prize.  
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<p><b class="Jpink">T</b>o see more details about integrated Human Practices of Jiangnan, please follow:<br>
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<p><b class="Jpink">T</b>o understand the process of vaccine production, preservation and transportation, as well as vaccination, we visited some factories for vaccine production. During these visits, we found the need of establishing a cell line feasible for rapid production of a broad spectrum of vaccines, and our strategic collaboration partner, ‘Dabeinong Group’, who is willing to finance us in conducting this project. Besides, ‘Dabeinong Group’ has also supported us in offering a company tour to the vaccine production line, viruses, etc. Note that our project fully complies with iGEM’s  requirements, as we use animal viruses in this project which are non-infectious to humans. Once this project is successfully completed, not only ‘Dabeinong Group’ could significantly benefit from it by having a self-owned intellectual property cell line with reduced production cost and complexity, but also the whole vaccine industry could be greatly promoted in having a platform of establishing industrially relevant features to cells using synthetic biology approaches. </p>
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<p><b class="Jpink">T</b>o seek the practical importance of our project and external expertise to help improve it, we did the following HPs. First, we invited world leading experts from Australia to our university to guide us in our experiments and deepen our understandings on the clinical and industrial importance of this project. Second, we participated in several meet-ups with other iGEM teams. We exchanged our project ideas and discussed unresolved problems in the experiments, and received lots of pertinent suggestions on both sides. Also, we made good friends through these active communications and discussions, which constitutes the most amazing part of our memories</p>
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<p><b class="Jpink">T</b>o disseminate vaccination related knowledge and the importance of our project to the public, we visited CDC (Centers for Disease Control), the community epidemic prevention station, two kindergartens and one high school. During this process, we recognized a significant lack of cognition in the public on the importance of getting vaccination in time as well as basic understandings on synthetic biology. When conducting HP on this aspect, we adopted a three-step strategy to approach, stimulate the interest and thinking of the public, i.e., discovery, practice and discussion. Through our persisting efforts, we demonstrated that it is possible to communicate with the public from all ages and diverse disciplines and social status on synthetic biology and science in general; and with our efforts, we have successfully enhanced people’ understandings on vaccination, synthetic biology as well as current social and technical challenges faced in science.</p>
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<p>Convince the judges you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your work is responsible and good for the world. Document how you have investigated these issues and engaged with your relevant communities, why you chose this approach, and what you have learned. Please note that surveys will not fulfill this criteria unless you follow scientifically valid methods. </p>
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<p>Expand on your silver medal activity by demonstrating how you have integrated the investigated issues into the purpose, design and/or execution of your project. Document how your project has changed based upon your human practices work.
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<p>To compete for the Best Integrated Human Practices prize, please describe your work on this page and also fill out the description on the judging form. </p>
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Latest revision as of 03:05, 18 October 2018

OVERVIEW

Backgournd

China has been suffering from serious influenza outbreak since the winter of 2017. Also, China is one of the ten countries with the highest mortality caused by pneumococcus among children under the age of five. And compared with the first type of vaccine, the vaccination rate of the second type of vaccine is still very low. However, the vaccination rate in China is only 2%, and the public lacks cognition on the importance of vaccination as well as the associated knowledge. We are thus motivated to conduct HP on disseminating vaccine related information to the public and surveying people from different social status on their view towards the practical importance of our project, with the aim of enhancing people’ cognition on vaccination and deepening our own understandings on why and how to carry out this project.

To see more details about Human Practices of Jiangnan, please follow:
Silver

To see more details about integrated Human Practices of Jiangnan, please follow:
Gold

To understand the process of vaccine production, preservation and transportation, as well as vaccination, we visited some factories for vaccine production. During these visits, we found the need of establishing a cell line feasible for rapid production of a broad spectrum of vaccines, and our strategic collaboration partner, ‘Dabeinong Group’, who is willing to finance us in conducting this project. Besides, ‘Dabeinong Group’ has also supported us in offering a company tour to the vaccine production line, viruses, etc. Note that our project fully complies with iGEM’s requirements, as we use animal viruses in this project which are non-infectious to humans. Once this project is successfully completed, not only ‘Dabeinong Group’ could significantly benefit from it by having a self-owned intellectual property cell line with reduced production cost and complexity, but also the whole vaccine industry could be greatly promoted in having a platform of establishing industrially relevant features to cells using synthetic biology approaches.

To seek the practical importance of our project and external expertise to help improve it, we did the following HPs. First, we invited world leading experts from Australia to our university to guide us in our experiments and deepen our understandings on the clinical and industrial importance of this project. Second, we participated in several meet-ups with other iGEM teams. We exchanged our project ideas and discussed unresolved problems in the experiments, and received lots of pertinent suggestions on both sides. Also, we made good friends through these active communications and discussions, which constitutes the most amazing part of our memories

To disseminate vaccination related knowledge and the importance of our project to the public, we visited CDC (Centers for Disease Control), the community epidemic prevention station, two kindergartens and one high school. During this process, we recognized a significant lack of cognition in the public on the importance of getting vaccination in time as well as basic understandings on synthetic biology. When conducting HP on this aspect, we adopted a three-step strategy to approach, stimulate the interest and thinking of the public, i.e., discovery, practice and discussion. Through our persisting efforts, we demonstrated that it is possible to communicate with the public from all ages and diverse disciplines and social status on synthetic biology and science in general; and with our efforts, we have successfully enhanced people’ understandings on vaccination, synthetic biology as well as current social and technical challenges faced in science.