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Silver-level HP

Activity A

In order to learn the general information on the treatment of liver diseases, Jiajun and Nanting went to the First Hospital of Zhejiang Province to consult with clinic doctors, visit patients with liver diseases. Especially, some patients gave many good suggestions to protect human liver in the daily life, which are included in the following:

1) Night time is the best time for the liver to detoxify. It is unfavorable to eat at night for our liver health since this life style invisibly increases the metabolic burden of the liver. I

2) Excessive wine drinking will harm the liver. When alcohol enters the body, it is metabolized mainly in the liver and has direct damage to the liver.

3) Avoid misuse, abuse of drugs. We should carefully follow the doctors’ instruction or standardize drug usage.

4) Greasy food, especially high fat food, can invisibly increase the metabolic burden of the liver, and in the long run can seriously affect the normal functioning of the liver.

5) Do not abuse some so-called healthy products to prevent liver damage caused by drugs.

Activity B

In order to understand liver disease more deeply, Chutian went to Zheda Hospital to visit several doctors for their suggestions. And five teammates went to visit several medical Doctors in The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University. Dr. Chen Yuanchi and Dr. Xu Zhipeng in their research center of liver and gallbladder told us the recent progress of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. We learned that hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery is a sub-specialty of general surgery, mainly facing patients with liver, biliary and pancreatic diseases. The liver is an important organ of life, and liver disease can affect the whole body. However, up to now, they have not fully understood the pathology, physiology, pathogenesis of the liver, there are still many serious diseases to be solved in the future. The two notable characteristics of hepatobiliary surgery are complex and difficult, thus chemical drug is a good choice.

Activity C

With the budding of smart yogurt concept, we visited the research center of Wahaha factory and learned much from Dr. Sun Yong, who is in charge of yogurt production. He told us the steps to make yogurt, and introduced the best-selling products of Wahaha enterprise and their manufacturing processes. Dr. Sun also invited us to taste the drinks produced by Wahaha factory. It is a very pleasant meeting.

Activity D

We designed the logo of our iGEM team, and set up the WeChat public account to publish our written articles on synthetic biology and iGEM regularly. This activity stimulate more and more people to know the concept of synthetic biology and understand why we love to take this international competition.

Activity E