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| − | <h1>THE IDEA</h1> | + | <h1>THE WELCOME MESSAGE</h1> |
| − | <p>Our project idea was inspired mostly by a donation | + | <p> |
| − | campaign for a colleague of ours, organised in our faculty.
| + | Uff... it's just coming soon<br><br><br> |
| − | We dived head-first into this problem and uncovered that the
| + | Like... um.. tomorrow ^ _ ^ |
| − | average survival rates for Bulgarian patients with cystic fibrosis
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| − | are far lower than those for patients living in more developed countries.
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| − | One of the main reasons behind that contrast is untimely diagnosis. This
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| − | served as a huge push for us to try and develop our system and, in a way,
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| − | try to give a second chance to patients by providing timely diagnosis. We
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| − | presented the problem and our solution at various different science-oriented
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| − | events - Sofia Science Festival 2018, for instance. We also organized our own
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| − | campaign, The 65 SynBio Roses, in which we had people draw and/or color roses,
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| − | some of which - with iGEM chromoproteins. This way, we managed to introduce people
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| − | not only to an important issue in need of a solution, but to synthetic biology’s
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| − | problem-solving potential, too. We chose our very publicly oriented approach in
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| − | order to engage as large of an audience as possible. This helped us learn the
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| − | perspectives of people that do not know much (or at all) about science and
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| − | showed us the many ways others’ opinions and ideas can have an impact on your own.
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