Team:UNSW Australia/Lab

The wider social, economic and political context of science can have a large impact on how discoveries are used, and which avenues of research are pursued. Our team has focused on a few major aspects of human practices (commercialisation, legal, and education and outreach) with respect to our project. The research and information gathered in these areas has then informed our project design, from the choice of the protein (thermostable and chemically stable), to the protein-protein bonding mechanism (a system holding a US patent that does not apply in Australia), to the enzymes involved in our scaffold (enzymes desired and used by industry today). We have also communicated our project to a wide cross-section of the Australian population. Click on each section to be taken to the relevant pages.