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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Local bureaucratic authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a wide sample at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were a bit drunk, we had to find another area with a high number of visitors. They were also not allowed to all belong to one particular social group, class or profession. So we considered going to our local council (Münchener Kreisverwaltungsreferat), and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with an average age of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't as a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*At Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*At Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they had heard of synthetic biology, but when we took a closer look at their following answers we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% of people had heard of synthetic biology at the university, this was much more than at Oktoberfest.<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the local council<br />
*Only 24% at the university were religious compared to the overall figure of 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagram showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagram showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected from misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graph showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graph to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graph<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it, to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a slight tendency,for people who are religious to show less support for the research, but it isn't really a large difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much association to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seem to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't well enough informed.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it less be more unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity in terms of whether they support it or not.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==Conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we gained a very positive picture and this could be improved if people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Local bureaucratic authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a wide sample at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were a bit drunk, we had to find another area with a high number of visitors. They were also not allowed to all belong to one particular social group, class or profession. So we considered going to our local council (Münchener Kreisverwaltungsreferat), and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with an average age of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't as a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*At Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*At Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they had heard of synthetic biology, but when we took a closer look at their following answers we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% of people had heard of synthetic biology at the university, this was much more than at Oktoberfest.<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the local council<br />
*Only 24% at the university were religious compared to the overall figure of 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagram showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagram showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected from misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graph showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graph to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graph<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it, to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a slight tendency,for people who are religious to show less support for the research, but it isn't really a large difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much association to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seem to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't well enough informed.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it less be more unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity in terms of whether they support it or not.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Local bureaucratic authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a wide sample at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were a bit drunk, we had to find another area with a high number of visitors. They were also not allowed to all belong to one particular social group, class or profession. So we considered going to our local council (Münchener Kreisverwaltungsreferat), and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with an average age of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't as a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*At Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*At Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they had heard of synthetic biology, but when we took a closer look at their following answers we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% of people had heard of synthetic biology at the university, this was much more than at Oktoberfest.<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the local council<br />
*Only 24% at the university were religious compared to the overall figure of 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagram showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagram showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected from misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graph showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graph to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graph<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Local bureaucratic authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a wide sample at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were a bit drunk, we had to find another area with a high number of visitors. They were also not allowed to all belong to one particular social group, class or profession. So we considered going to our local council (Münchener Kreisverwaltungsreferat), and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with an average age of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't as a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*At Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*At Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they had heard of synthetic biology, but when we took a closer look at their following answers we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% of people had heard of synthetic biology at the university, this was much more than at Oktoberfest.<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the local council<br />
*Only 24% at the university were religious compared to the overall figure of 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Local bureaucratic authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a wide sample at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were a bit drunk, we had to find another area with a high number of visitors. They were also not allowed to all belong to one particular social group, class or profession. So we considered going to our local council (Münchener Kreisverwaltungsreferat), and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with an average age of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course being students ourselves, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. It also entered our mind that university students obviously have a high standard of education or are at least more likely to be willing to engage in academic or intellectual thought processes. This is probably in contrast to what one might find at Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case stemmed from the idea that often people who aren't informed about a particular subject are more likely to have a negative perception of it, and therefore more likely to have more angst towards it. In summary we were testing a hypothesis that there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this area of study and support for its further development.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an average age of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the temptation of asking around at Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that began as a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that they might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol percentage, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite a fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200th anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people at Oktoberfest with an average age of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't as international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone to the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
==Evaluation==<br />
In total we asked 242 people, with an average age of 25 years. Interestingly, a little over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% would not. The rest were undecided. If misuse of such research was not an issue i.e. it was impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked them what they felt were possible misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered that question. The most common answers were the following (we sorted them into several categories): Fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
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When we were thinking about human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But whilst discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we didn't know what people already knew about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey to find out.<br />
<br />
We asked people about their opinion on several topics, including multiple questions regarding their understanding of a wider range of issues within the general study of molecular biology. To incorporate a broad range of views, and to gain a fair reperesntation of different groups in society, we asked people at Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an local bureaucratic authority.<br />
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For the English version of our original questionaire, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
We also had a few interviews:<br />
<br />
Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
<br />
Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
<br />
Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Altogether we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked for misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered to that question. The most common answers have been following (we sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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Image:Corinna.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Corinna Corinna Hofer]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Nicolas.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Nicky Nicolas Keller]:''' Biology, Law, ApoControl, Pathway<br />
Image:Laura2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Laura Laura Kleinknecht]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl <br />
Image:Christina.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Christina Christina Krönauer]:''' expected BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
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Image:Marisa.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Marisa Marisa Kurz]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway <br />
Image:Jens Popken.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jens Jens Popken]:''' Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Jara2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jara Jara Radeck]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Emanuel.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Emanuel Emanuel Stiegeler]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Geli.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Geli Angelika Vetter]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Sabine Wagner.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Bine Sabine Wagner]:''' Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Grace.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Grace Mengzhe Wang (Grace)]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== '''Who is in charge of what''' ==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
| Press<br />
| Nicolas Keller, Marisa Kurz<br />
|-<br />
| Sponsoring<br />
| Sabine Wagner, Franziska Haefele<br />
|-<br />
| Pathway<br />
| Tobias Bauer, Emanuel Stiegeler, Benny Clanner<br />
|-<br />
| ApoControl<br />
| Julia Bartels, Jara Radeck, Mengzhe Grace Wang<br />
|-<br />
| Homepage<br />
| Tatyana Goldberg, Jens Popken<br />
|-<br />
| Coordination/Organisation<br />
| Jara Radeck, Angelika Vetter<br />
|-<br />
| Contact<br />
| igemlmu@yahoo.de<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== '''What we did''' ==<br />
<br />
<b>Short description of our work, our results and our supporters</b><br />
<br />
<br />
To establish our two systems “Cut’N’Survive” and “Jump-Or-Die” for selecting cells by apoptosis, we first set out to build the necessary BioBricks. We searched for sources of the DNA parts involved and several labs kindly provided us with the plasmids and sequences in need, as listed at the end. <br />
<br />
Most genes and promoters were amplificated per PCR with overhang-primers with the BioBrick prefix or suffix. If the sequence contained a EcoRI-, PstI-, XbaI-, SpeI- or NotI- restriction site, mutagenesis primers were used and the amplified DNA parts were then fused by fusion PCR. All PCRs worked in the end in spite of several problems with the touch down PCR and the fusion PCR.The PCR products were then tested by agarose gel electrophoresis if they were of the right lengths.<br />
<br />
In parallel, we made competent cells and multiplied the ccdB (death gene)-vectors with different antibiotic resistances. <br />
<br />
All components were then digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The PCR products were cleaned with a PCR purification kit and the ccdB-vectors were dephosphorylated to reduce false ligations.<br />
<br />
We ligated our constructs and several intermediates with the 3A-assembly according to the schedule. The ligations were transformed to E.coli DH5α strains and selected by antibiotics. The colonies were later picked and the insertion of the construct was confirmed by colony PCR. <br />
<br />
If the colony PCR showed bands of the right size, the plasmids were extracted from overnight cultures and sequenced with forward and reverse BioBrick primers.<br />
<br />
In the end we succeeded in obtaining four correctly sequenced BioBricks. But since the sequences of other necessary parts turned out wrong, neither of our systems could be completed and we were not able to test them in eukarytic cell lines. <br />
<br />
In addition, we found out that the CMV-promoter we ordered from the BioBrick registry was in fact a lacI gene, which resulted in the procrastination of our plan. We have sent the correction to the registry to facilitate future teams.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Our notebook with detailed descriptions can be found here:</b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis|ApoControl notebook]]<br />
<br />
<b>The protocols we used are listed here: </b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook#Protocols|Protocols]] <br />
<br />
<b>The Biobricks we submitted: </b><br />
<br />
*BBa_K368004: attP+eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368011: eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368016: TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
*BBa_K368019: TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
<br />
<b>Supervisors</b><br />
<br />
* Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger : <br />
** prevTRE (tet-on CMV promoter; inducible by doxycycline in special cell lines)<br />
** supported the construction ideas and would have given us the cells and mediums we would have needed<br />
** SV40PA (Polyadenylation site): gave us a vector containing it<br />
** Human Bak: her assistant Erika Clement gave us appropriate cDNA<br />
* Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher:<br />
** Helped with primer design, agarose gel electrophoresis apparatuses and trouble shooting<br />
* Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung:<br />
** Helped with ideas and fundraising<br />
* Dr. Susanne Gebhard:<br />
** Helped with trouble-shooting and materials<br />
* Kemal Akman<br />
** Helped and supported our sub-project ProSearch<br />
<br />
<b> Plasmid and sequence sources </b><br />
<br />
* Dr. Arnim Weber: provided us with human Bak plasmid<br />
* Dr. Philipe Soriano: <html><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17225864?dopt=Abstract"> (Raymond CS et al: High-Efficiency FLP and PhiC31 Site-Specific Recombination in Mammalian Cells (2007))</a><br />
</html><br />
** Sequences of attB and attP site<br />
** PhiC31o was bought via Addgene<br />
* Dr. Michael Knop:(Heidelberg): <html><br />
<a href ="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Efficient%20protein%20depletion%20by%20genetically%20controlled%20deprotection%20of%20a%20dormant%20N-degron">(Knop et al.: Efficient protein depletion by genetically controlled deprotection of a dormant N-degron (2009))</a><br />
</html><br />
** provided us with: <br />
** TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
** TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
* Prof. Dr. Andreas Brachmann: <br />
** Sequenced our samples<br />
* Partsregistry provided us with:<br />
** eGFP (BBa_I714891)<br />
** CMV-Promoter (BBa_J52034: this part was wrong: its lacI !!!)<br />
** ccdB amp, cam, tet, kan in E.coli DH3<br />
<br />
<br />
As our project for human practice, we carried out a survey about synthetic biology on the general public at the Oktoberfest, LMU Munich and the Municipal Secretary: [[Team:LMU-Munich/HumanPractice|Human practice]]<br />
<br />
== '''Where we are from''' ==<br />
<br />
We are students at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:lmu2.jpg|center|760px|Biozentrum]]our bio-center (photos courtesy of www.stbam2.bayern.de)<br />
<br />
There's a second University in our beautiful Munich, even though it is "only" a technical University. Also check out their <br />
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== '''Who we are''' ==<br />
<br />
We are a team constisting of biologists, biochemists, chemists and bioinformatics and four faculty advisors... The LMU team is competing for the first time.<br />
<br />
=== Advisors ===<br />
<br />
<div align="center"><br />
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Image: Böttger.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger</span>:''' Department Biologie II/ Cell and Developmental Biology<br />
Image:Jung.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung</span>:''' Head of the Division of Microbiology <br />
Image:Mascher.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher</span>:''' Department Biologie I/ Microbiology<br />
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Image:Tresch.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Dr. Achim Tresch</span>:''' Computational Biology and Regulatory Networks<br />
Image:Akman.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/KemalAkman Kemal Akman]:''' Bioinformatics<br />
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=== Undergrads ===<br />
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Image:Julia3.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Julia Julia Bartels]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Tobi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Tobi Tobias Bauer]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Alexander Buschle.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Alex Alexander Buschle]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Benny.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Benny Benjamin Clanner]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, Pathway <br />
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Image:Maria.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Maria Maria Katharina Drexler]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:ErikFumi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Erik Erik Fumi]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway<br />
Image:Tatyana.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/User:Tatyana Tatyana Goldberg]:''' BSc Bioinformatics, ApoControl<br />
Image:Franzi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Franzi Franziska Häfele]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Corinna.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Corinna Corinna Hofer]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Nicolas.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Nicky Nicolas Keller]:''' Biology, Law, ApoControl, Pathway<br />
Image:Laura2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Laura Laura Kleinknecht]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl <br />
Image:Christina.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Christina Christina Krönauer]:''' expected BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Marisa.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Marisa Marisa Kurz]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway <br />
Image:Jens Popken.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jens Jens Popken]:''' Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Jara2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jara Jara Radeck]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Emanuel.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Emanuel Emanuel Stiegeler]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
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Image:Geli.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Geli Angelika Vetter]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Sabine Wagner.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Bine Sabine Wagner]:''' Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Grace.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Grace Mengzhe Wang (Grace)]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== '''Who is in charge of what''' ==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
| Press<br />
| Nicolas Keller, Marisa Kurz<br />
|-<br />
| Sponsoring<br />
| Sabine Wagner, Franziska Haefele<br />
|-<br />
| Pathway<br />
| Tobias Bauer, Emanuel Stiegeler, Benny Clanner<br />
|-<br />
| ApoControl<br />
| Julia Bartels, Jara Radeck, Mengzhe Grace Wang<br />
|-<br />
| Homepage<br />
| Tatyana Goldberg, Jens Popken<br />
|-<br />
| Coordination/Organisation<br />
| Jara Radeck, Angelika Vetter<br />
|-<br />
| Contact<br />
| igemlmu@yahoo.de<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== '''What we did''' ==<br />
<br />
<b>Short description of our work, our results and our supporters</b><br />
<br />
<br />
To establish our two systems “Cut’N’Survive” and “Jump-Or-Die” for selecting cells by apoptosis, we first set out to build the necessary BioBricks. We searched for sources of the DNA parts involved and several labs kindly provided us with the plasmids and sequences in need, as listed at the end. <br />
<br />
Most genes and promoters were amplificated per PCR with overhang-primers with the BioBrick prefix or suffix. If the sequence contained a EcoRI-, PstI-, XbaI-, SpeI- or NotI- restriction site, mutagenesis primers were used and the amplified DNA parts were then fused by fusion PCR. All PCRs worked in the end in spite of several problems with the touch down PCR and the fusion PCR.The PCR products were then tested by agarose gel electrophoresis if they were of the right lengths.<br />
<br />
In parallel, we made competent cells and multiplied the ccdB (death gene)-vectors with different antibiotic resistances. <br />
<br />
All components were then digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The PCR products were cleaned with a PCR purification kit and the ccdB-vectors were dephosphorylated to reduce false ligations.<br />
<br />
We ligated our constructs and several intermediates with the 3A-assembly according to the schedule. The ligations were transformed to E.coli DH5α strains and selected by antibiotics. The colonies were later picked and the insertion of the construct was confirmed by colony PCR. <br />
<br />
If the colony PCR showed bands of the right size, the plasmids were extracted from overnight cultures and sequenced with forward and reverse BioBrick primers.<br />
<br />
In the end we succeeded in obtaining four correctly sequenced BioBricks. But since the sequences of other necessary parts turned out wrong, neither of our systems could be completed and we were not able to test them in eukarytic cell lines. <br />
<br />
In addition, we found out that the CMV-promoter we ordered from the BioBrick registry was in fact a lacI gene, which resulted in the procrastination of our plan. We have sent the correction to the registry to facilitate future teams.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Our notebook with detailed descriptions can be found here:</b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis|ApoControl notebook]]<br />
<br />
<b>The protocols we used are listed here: </b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook#Protocols|Protocols]] <br />
<br />
<b>The Biobricks we submitted: </b><br />
<br />
*BBa_K368004: attP+eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368011: eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368016: TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
*BBa_K368019: TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
<br />
<b>Supervisors</b><br />
<br />
* Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger : <br />
** prevTRE (tet-on CMV promoter; inducible by doxycycline in special cell lines)<br />
** supported the construction ideas and would have given us the cells and mediums we would have needed<br />
** SV40PA (Polyadenylation site): gave us a vector containing it<br />
** Human Bak: her assistant Erika Clement gave us appropriate cDNA<br />
* Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher:<br />
** Helped with primer design, agarose gel electrophoresis apparatuses and trouble shooting<br />
* Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung:<br />
** Helped with ideas and fundraising<br />
* Dr. Susanne Gebhard:<br />
** Helped with trouble-shooting and materials<br />
* Kemal Akman<br />
** Helped and supported our sub-project ProSearch<br />
<br />
<b> Plasmid and sequence sources </b><br />
<br />
* Dr. Arnim Weber: provided us with human Bak plasmid<br />
* Dr. Philipe Soriano: <html><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17225864?dopt=Abstract"> (Raymond CS et al: High-Efficiency FLP and PhiC31 Site-Specific Recombination in Mammalian Cells (2007))</a><br />
</html><br />
** Sequences of attB and attP site<br />
** PhiC31o was bought via Addgene<br />
* Dr. Michael Knop:(Heidelberg): <html><br />
<a href ="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Efficient%20protein%20depletion%20by%20genetically%20controlled%20deprotection%20of%20a%20dormant%20N-degron">(Knop et al.: Efficient protein depletion by genetically controlled deprotection of a dormant N-degron (2009))</a><br />
</html><br />
** provided us with: <br />
** TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
** TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
* Prof. Dr. Andreas Brachmann: <br />
** Sequenced our samples<br />
* Partsregistry provided us with:<br />
** eGFP (BBa_I714891)<br />
** CMV-Promoter (BBa_J52034: this part was wrong: its lacI !!!)<br />
** ccdB amp, cam, tet, kan in E.coli DH3<br />
<br />
<br />
As our project for human practice, we carried out a survey about synthetic biology on the general public at the Oktoberfest, LMU Munich and the Municipal Secretary: [[Team:LMU-Munich/HumanPractice|Human practice]]<br />
<br />
== '''Where we are from''' ==<br />
<br />
We are students at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:lmu2.jpg|center|760px|Biozentrum]]our bio-center (photos courtesy of www.stbam2.bayern.de)<br />
<br />
There's a second University in our beautiful Munich, even though it is "only" a technical University. Also check out their <br />
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== '''Who we are''' ==<br />
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We are a team constisting of biologists, biochemists, chemists and bioinformatics and four faculty advisors... The LMU team is competing for the first time.<br />
<br />
=== Advisors ===<br />
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<div align="center"><br />
<gallery><br />
Image: Böttger.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger</span>:''' Department Biologie II/ Cell and Developmental Biology<br />
Image:Jung.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung</span>:''' Head of the Division of Microbiology <br />
Image:Mascher.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher</span>:''' Department Biologie I/ Microbiology<br />
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</div><br />
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Image:Tresch.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Dr. Achim Tresch</span>:''' Computational Biology and Regulatory Networks<br />
Image:Akman.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/KemalAkman Kemal Akman]:''' Bioinformatics<br />
</gallery><br />
</div><br />
<br />
=== Undergrads ===<br />
<br />
<br />
<div align="center"><br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Julia3.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Julia Julia Bartels]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Tobi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Tobi Tobias Bauer]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Alexander Buschle.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Alex Alexander Buschle]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Benny.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Benny Benjamin Clanner]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Maria.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Maria Maria Katharina Drexler]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:ErikFumi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Erik Erik Fumi]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway<br />
Image:Tatyana.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/User:Tatyana Tatyana Goldberg]:''' BSc Bioinformatics, ApoControl<br />
Image:Franzi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Franzi Franziska Häfele]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Corinna.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Corinna Corinna Hofer]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Nicolas.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Nicky Nicolas Keller]:''' Biology, Law, ApoControl, Pathway<br />
Image:Laura2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Laura Laura Kleinknecht]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl <br />
Image:Christina.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Christina Christina Krönauer]:''' expected BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Marisa.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Marisa Marisa Kurz]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway <br />
Image:Jens Popken.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jens Jens Popken]:''' Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Jara2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jara Jara Radeck]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Emanuel.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Emanuel Emanuel Stiegeler]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Geli.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Geli Angelika Vetter]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Sabine Wagner.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Bine Sabine Wagner]:''' Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Grace.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Grace Mengzhe Wang (Grace)]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== '''Who is in charge of what''' ==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
| Press<br />
| Nicolas Keller, Marisa Kurz<br />
|-<br />
| Sponsoring<br />
| Sabine Wagner, Franziska Haefele<br />
|-<br />
| Pathway<br />
| Tobias Bauer, Emanuel Stiegeler, Benny Clanner<br />
|-<br />
| ApoControl<br />
| Julia Bartels, Jara Radeck, Mengzhe Grace Wang<br />
|-<br />
| Homepage<br />
| Tatyana Goldberg, Jens Popken<br />
|-<br />
| Coordination/Organisation<br />
| Jara Radeck, Angelika Vetter<br />
|-<br />
| Contact<br />
| igemlmu@yahoo.de<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== '''What we did''' ==<br />
<br />
<b>Short description of our work, our results and our supporters</b><br />
<br />
<br />
To establish our two systems “Cut’N’Survive” and “Jump-Or-Die” for selecting cells by apoptosis, we first set out to build the necessary BioBricks. We searched for sources of the DNA parts involved and several labs kindly provided us with the plasmids and sequences in need, as listed at the end. <br />
<br />
Most genes and promoters were amplificated per PCR with overhang-primers with the BioBrick prefix or suffix. If the sequence contained a EcoRI-, PstI-, XbaI-, SpeI- or NotI- restriction site, mutagenesis primers were used and the amplified DNA parts were then fused by fusion PCR. All PCRs worked in the end in spite of several problems with the touch down PCR and the fusion PCR.The PCR products were then tested by agarose gel electrophoresis if they were of the right lengths.<br />
<br />
In parallel, we made competent cells and multiplied the ccdB (death gene)-vectors with different antibiotic resistances. <br />
<br />
All components were then digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The PCR products were cleaned with a PCR purification kit and the ccdB-vectors were dephosphorylated to reduce false ligations.<br />
<br />
We ligated our constructs and several intermediates with the 3A-assembly according to the schedule. The ligations were transformed to E.coli DH5α strains and selected by antibiotics. The colonies were later picked and the insertion of the construct was confirmed by colony PCR. <br />
<br />
If the colony PCR showed bands of the right size, the plasmids were extracted from overnight cultures and sequenced with forward and reverse BioBrick primers.<br />
<br />
In the end we succeeded in obtaining four correctly sequenced BioBricks. But since the sequences of other necessary parts turned out wrong, neither of our systems could be completed and we were not able to test them in eukarytic cell lines. <br />
<br />
In addition, we found out that the CMV-promoter we ordered from the BioBrick registry was in fact a lacI gene, which resulted in the procrastination of our plan. We have sent the correction to the registry to facilitate future teams.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Our notebook with detailed descriptions can be found here:</b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis|ApoControl notebook]]<br />
<br />
<b>The protocols we used are listed here: </b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook#Protocols|Protocols]] <br />
<br />
<b>The Biobricks we submitted: </b><br />
<br />
*BBa_K368004: attP+eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368011: eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368016: TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
*BBa_K368019: TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
<br />
<b>Supervisors</b><br />
<br />
* Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger : <br />
** prevTRE (tet-on CMV promoter; inducible by doxycycline in special cell lines)<br />
** supported the construction ideas and would have given us the cells and mediums we would have needed<br />
** SV40PA (Polyadenylation site): gave us a vector containing it<br />
** Human Bak: her assistant Erika Clement gave us appropriate cDNA<br />
* Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher:<br />
** Helped with primer design, agarose gel electrophoresis apparatuses and trouble shooting<br />
* Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung:<br />
** Helped with ideas and fundraising<br />
* Dr. Susanne Gebhard:<br />
** Helped with trouble-shooting and materials<br />
* Kemal Akman<br />
** Helped and supported our sub-project ProSearch<br />
<br />
<b> Plasmid and sequence sources </b><br />
<br />
* Dr. Arnim Weber: provided us with human Bak plasmid<br />
* Dr. Philipe Soriano: <html><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17225864?dopt=Abstract"> (Raymond CS et al: High-Efficiency FLP and PhiC31 Site-Specific Recombination in Mammalian Cells (2007))</a><br />
</html><br />
** Sequences of attB and attP site<br />
** PhiC31o was bought via Addgene<br />
* Dr. Michael Knop:(Heidelberg): <html><br />
<a href ="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Efficient%20protein%20depletion%20by%20genetically%20controlled%20deprotection%20of%20a%20dormant%20N-degron">(Knop et al.: Efficient protein depletion by genetically controlled deprotection of a dormant N-degron (2009))</a><br />
</html><br />
** provided us with: <br />
** TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
** TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
* Prof. Dr. Andreas Brachmann: <br />
** Sequenced our samples<br />
* Partsregistry provided us with:<br />
** eGFP (BBa_I714891)<br />
** CMV-Promoter (BBa_J52034: this part was wrong: its lacI !!!)<br />
** ccdB amp, cam, tet, kan in E.coli DH3<br />
<br />
<br />
As our project for human practice, we carried out a survey about synthetic biology on the general public at the Oktoberfest, LMU Munich and the Municipal Secretary: [[Team:LMU-Munich/HumanPractice|Human practice]]<br />
<br />
== '''Where we are from''' ==<br />
<br />
We are students at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:lmu2.jpg|center|760px|Biozentrum]]our bio-center (photos courtesy of www.stbam2.bayern.de)<br />
<br />
There's a second University in our beautiful Munich, even though it "only" is a technical University. Also check out their <br />
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== '''Who we are''' ==<br />
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We are a team constisting of biologists, biochemists, chemists and bioinformatics and four faculty advisors... The LMU team is competing for the first time.<br />
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=== Advisors ===<br />
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Image: Böttger.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger</span>:''' Department Biologie II/ Cell and Developmental Biology<br />
Image:Jung.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung</span>:''' Head of the Division of Microbiology <br />
Image:Mascher.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher</span>:''' Department Biologie I/ Microbiology<br />
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Image:Tresch.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Dr. Achim Tresch</span>:''' Computational Biology and Regulatory Networks<br />
Image:Akman.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/KemalAkman Kemal Akman]:''' Bioinformatics<br />
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=== Undergrads ===<br />
<br />
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<div align="center"><br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Julia3.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Julia Julia Bartels]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Tobi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Tobi Tobias Bauer]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Alexander Buschle.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Alex Alexander Buschle]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Benny.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Benny Benjamin Clanner]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
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Image:Maria.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Maria Maria Katharina Drexler]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:ErikFumi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Erik Erik Fumi]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway<br />
Image:Tatyana.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/User:Tatyana Tatyana Goldberg]:''' BSc Bioinformatics, ApoControl<br />
Image:Franzi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Franzi Franziska Häfele]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Corinna.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Corinna Corinna Hofer]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Nicolas.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Nicky Nicolas Keller]:''' Biology, Law, ApoControl, Pathway<br />
Image:Laura2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Laura Laura Kleinknecht]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl <br />
Image:Christina.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Christina Christina Krönauer]:''' expected BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
</gallery><br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Marisa.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Marisa Marisa Kurz]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway <br />
Image:Jens Popken.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jens Jens Popken]:''' Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Jara2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jara Jara Radeck]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Emanuel.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Emanuel Emanuel Stiegeler]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
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Image:Geli.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Geli Angelika Vetter]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Sabine Wagner.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Bine Sabine Wagner]:''' Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Grace.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Grace Mengzhe Wang (Grace)]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
</gallery><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== '''Who is in charge of what''' ==<br />
<br />
{|<br />
| Press<br />
| Nicolas Keller, Marisa Kurz<br />
|-<br />
| Sponsoring<br />
| Sabine Wagner, Franziska Haefele<br />
|-<br />
| Pathway<br />
| Tobias Bauer, Emanuel Stiegeler, Benny Clanner<br />
|-<br />
| ApoControl<br />
| Julia Bartels, Jara Radeck, Mengzhe Grace Wang<br />
|-<br />
| Homepage<br />
| Tatyana Goldberg, Jens Popken<br />
|-<br />
| Coordination/Organisation<br />
| Jara Radeck, Angelika Vetter<br />
|-<br />
| Contact<br />
| igemlmu@yahoo.de<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== '''What we did''' ==<br />
<br />
<b>Short description of our work, our results and our supporters</b><br />
<br />
<br />
To establish our two systems “Cut’N’Survive” and “Jump-Or-Die” for selecting cells by apoptosis, we first set out to build the necessary BioBricks. We searched for sources of the DNA parts involved and several labs kindly provided us with the plasmids and sequences in need, as listed at the end. <br />
<br />
Most genes and promoters were amplificated per PCR with overhang-primers with the BioBrick prefix or suffix. If the sequence contained a EcoRI-, PstI-, XbaI-, SpeI- or NotI- restriction site, mutagenesis primers were used and the amplified DNA parts were then fused by fusion PCR. All PCRs worked in the end in spite of several problems with the touch down PCR and the fusion PCR.The PCR products were then tested by agarose gel electrophoresis if they were of the right lengths.<br />
<br />
In parallel, we made competent cells and multiplied the ccdB (death gene)-vectors with different antibiotic resistances. <br />
<br />
All components were then digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The PCR products were cleaned with a PCR purification kit and the ccdB-vectors were dephosphorylated to reduce false ligations.<br />
<br />
We ligated our constructs and several intermediates with the 3A-assembly according to the schedule. The ligations were transformed to E.coli DH5α strains and selected by antibiotics. The colonies were later picked and the insertion of the construct was confirmed by colony PCR. <br />
<br />
If the colony PCR showed bands of the right size, the plasmids were extracted from overnight cultures and sequenced with forward and reverse BioBrick primers.<br />
<br />
In the end we succeeded in obtaining four correctly sequenced BioBricks. But since the sequences of other necessary parts turned out wrong, neither of our systems could be completed and we were not able to test them in eukarytic cell lines. <br />
<br />
In addition, we found out that the CMV-promoter we ordered from the BioBrick registry was in fact a lacI gene, which resulted in the procrastination of our plan. We have sent the correction to the registry to facilitate future teams.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Our notebook with detailed descriptions can be found here:</b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis|ApoControl notebook]]<br />
<br />
<b>The protocols we used are listed here: </b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook#Protocols|Protocols]] <br />
<br />
<b>The Biobricks we submitted: </b><br />
<br />
*BBa_K368004: attP+eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368011: eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368016: TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
*BBa_K368019: TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
<br />
<b>Supervisors</b><br />
<br />
* Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger : <br />
** prevTRE (tet-on CMV promoter; inducible by doxycycline in special cell lines)<br />
** supported the construction ideas and would have given us the cells and mediums we would have needed<br />
** SV40PA (Polyadenylation site): gave us a vector containing it<br />
** Human Bak: her assistant Erika Clement gave us appropriate cDNA<br />
* Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher:<br />
** Helped with primer design, agarose gel electrophoresis apparatuses and trouble shooting<br />
* Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung:<br />
** Helped with ideas and fundraising<br />
* Dr. Susanne Gebhard:<br />
** Helped with trouble-shooting and materials<br />
* Kemal Akman<br />
** Helped and supported our sub-project ProSearch<br />
<br />
<b> Plasmid and sequence sources </b><br />
<br />
* Dr. Arnim Weber: provided us with human Bak plasmid<br />
* Dr. Philipe Soriano: <html><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17225864?dopt=Abstract"> (Raymond CS et al: High-Efficiency FLP and PhiC31 Site-Specific Recombination in Mammalian Cells (2007))</a><br />
</html><br />
** Sequences of attB and attP site<br />
** PhiC31o was bought via Addgene<br />
* Dr. Michael Knop:(Heidelberg): <html><br />
<a href ="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Efficient%20protein%20depletion%20by%20genetically%20controlled%20deprotection%20of%20a%20dormant%20N-degron">(Knop et al.: Efficient protein depletion by genetically controlled deprotection of a dormant N-degron (2009))</a><br />
</html><br />
** provided us with: <br />
** TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
** TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
* Prof. Dr. Andreas Brachmann: <br />
** Sequenced our samples<br />
* Partsregistry provided us with:<br />
** eGFP (BBa_I714891)<br />
** CMV-Promoter (BBa_J52034: this part was wrong: its lacI !!!)<br />
** ccdB amp, cam, tet, kan in E.coli DH3<br />
<br />
<br />
As our project for human practice, we carried out a survey about synthetic biology on the general public at the Oktoberfest, LMU Munich and the Municipal Secretary: [[Team:LMU-Munich/HumanPractice|Human practice]]<br />
<br />
== '''Where we are from''' ==<br />
<br />
We are students at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:lmu2.jpg|center|760px|Biozentrum]]our bio-center (photos courtesy of www.stbam2.bayern.de)<br />
<br />
There's a second University in our beautiful Munich, even though it "only" is a technical University. Also check out their <br />
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== '''Who we are''' ==<br />
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We are a team constisting of biologists, biochemists, chemists and bioinformatics and four faculty advisors... The LMU team is competing for the first time.<br />
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=== Advisors ===<br />
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Image: Böttger.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger</span>:''' Department Biologie II/ Cell and Developmental Biology<br />
Image:Jung.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung</span>:''' Head of the Division of Microbiology <br />
Image:Mascher.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher</span>:''' Department Biologie I/ Microbiology<br />
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Image:Tresch.jpg|'''<span style="color:#0000CD"> Dr. Achim Tresch</span>:''' Computational Biology and Regulatory Networks<br />
Image:Akman.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/KemalAkman Kemal Akman]:''' Bioinformatics<br />
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=== Undergrads ===<br />
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Image:Julia3.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Julia Julia Bartels]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Tobi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Tobi Tobias Bauer]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Alexander Buschle.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Alex Alexander Buschle]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Benny.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Benny Benjamin Clanner]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, pharmaceutical sciences, Pathway <br />
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Image:Maria.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Maria Maria Katharina Drexler]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:ErikFumi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Erik Erik Fumi]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway<br />
Image:Tatyana.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/User:Tatyana Tatyana Goldberg]:''' BSc Bioinformatics, ApoControl<br />
Image:Franzi.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Franzi Franziska Häfele]:''' expected BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
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Image:Corinna.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Corinna Corinna Hofer]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Nicolas.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Nicky Nicolas Keller]:''' Biology, Law, ApoControl, Pathway<br />
Image:Laura2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Laura Laura Kleinknecht]:''' BSc Biology, ApoControl <br />
Image:Christina.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Christina Christina Krönauer]:''' expected BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
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Image:Marisa.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Marisa Marisa Kurz]:''' Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pathway <br />
Image:Jens Popken.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jens Jens Popken]:''' Biology, Pathway <br />
Image:Jara2.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Jara Jara Radeck]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Emanuel.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Emanuel Emanuel Stiegeler]:''' BSc Biology, Pathway <br />
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Image:Geli.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Geli Angelika Vetter]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
Image:Sabine Wagner.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Bine Sabine Wagner]:''' Biology, ApoControl, Pathway <br />
Image:Grace.jpg|'''[https://2010.igem.org/Team:LMU-Munich/Team/Grace Mengzhe Wang (Grace)]:''' Biology, ApoControl<br />
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== '''Who is in charge of what''' ==<br />
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| Press<br />
| Nicolas Keller, Marisa Kurz<br />
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| Sponsoring<br />
| Sabine Wagner, Franziska Haefele<br />
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| Pathway<br />
| Tobias Bauer, Emanuel Stiegeler, Benny Clanner<br />
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| ApoControl<br />
| Julia Bartels, Jara Radeck, Mengzhe Grace Wang<br />
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| Homepage<br />
| Tatyana Goldberg, Jens Popken<br />
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| Coordination/Organisation<br />
| Jara Radeck, Angelika Vetter<br />
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| Contact<br />
| igemlmu@yahoo.de<br />
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== '''What we did''' ==<br />
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<b>Short description of our work, our results and our supporters</b><br />
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To establish our two systems “Cut’N’Survive” and “Jump-Or-Die” for selecting cells by apoptosis, we first set out to build the necessary BioBricks. We searched for sources of the DNA parts involved and several labs kindly provided us with the plasmids and sequences in need, as listed at the end. <br />
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Most genes and promoters were amplificated per PCR with overhang-primers with the BioBrick prefix or suffix. If the sequence contained a EcoRI-, PstI-, XbaI-, SpeI- or NotI- restriction site, mutagenesis primers were used and the amplified DNA parts were then fused by fusion PCR. All PCRs worked in the end in spite of several problems with the touch down PCR and the fusion PCR.The PCR products were then tested by agarose gel electrophoresis if they were of the right lengths.<br />
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In parallel, we made competent cells and multiplied the ccdB (death gene)-vectors with different antibiotic resistances. <br />
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All components were then digested with the appropriate restriction enzymes. The PCR products were cleaned with a PCR purification kit and the ccdB-vectors were dephosphorylated to reduce false ligations.<br />
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We ligated our constructs and several intermediates with the 3A-assembly according to the schedule. The ligations were transformed to E.coli DH5α strains and selected by antibiotics. The colonies were later picked and the insertion of the construct was confirmed by colony PCR. <br />
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If the colony PCR showed bands of the right size, the plasmids were extracted from overnight cultures and sequenced with forward and reverse BioBrick primers.<br />
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In the end we succeeded in obtaining four correctly sequenced BioBricks. But since the sequences of other necessary parts turned out wrong, neither of our systems could be completed and we were not able to test them in eukarytic cell lines. <br />
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In addition, we found out that the CMV-promoter we ordered from the BioBrick registry was in fact a lacI gene, which resulted in the procrastination of our plan. We have sent the correction to the registry to facilitate future teams.<br />
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<b>Our notebook with detailed descriptions can be found here:</b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis|ApoControl notebook]]<br />
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<b>The protocols we used are listed here: </b> [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook#Protocols|Protocols]] <br />
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<b>The Biobricks we submitted: </b><br />
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*BBa_K368004: attP+eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368011: eGFP+SV40PA<br />
*BBa_K368016: TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
*BBa_K368019: TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
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<b>Supervisors</b><br />
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* Prof. Dr. Angelika Böttger : <br />
** prevTRE (tet-on CMV promoter; inducible by doxycycline in special cell lines)<br />
** supported the construction ideas and would have given us the cells and mediums we would have needed<br />
** SV40PA (Polyadenylation site): gave us a vector containing it<br />
** Human Bak: her assistant Erika Clement gave us appropriate cDNA<br />
* Prof. Dr. Thorsten Mascher:<br />
** Helped with primer design, agarose gel electrophoresis apparatuses and trouble shooting<br />
* Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung:<br />
** Helped with ideas and fundraising<br />
* Dr. Susanne Gebhard:<br />
** Helped with trouble-shooting and materials<br />
* Kemal Akman<br />
** Helped and supported our sub-project ProSearch<br />
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<b> Plasmid and sequence sources </b><br />
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* Dr. Arnim Weber: provided us with human Bak plasmid<br />
* Dr. Philipe Soriano: <html><br />
<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17225864?dopt=Abstract"> (Raymond CS et al: High-Efficiency FLP and PhiC31 Site-Specific Recombination in Mammalian Cells (2007))</a><br />
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** Sequences of attB and attP site<br />
** PhiC31o was bought via Addgene<br />
* Dr. Michael Knop:(Heidelberg): <html><br />
<a href ="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=Efficient%20protein%20depletion%20by%20genetically%20controlled%20deprotection%20of%20a%20dormant%20N-degron">(Knop et al.: Efficient protein depletion by genetically controlled deprotection of a dormant N-degron (2009))</a><br />
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** provided us with: <br />
** TEVrecognition site+N-degron+SF3b155<br />
** TEV-Protease+p14*+TEVrecognition site<br />
* Prof. Dr. Andreas Brachmann: <br />
** Sequenced our samples<br />
* Partsregistry provided us with:<br />
** eGFP (BBa_I714891)<br />
** CMV-Promoter (BBa_J52034: this part was wrong: its lacI !!!)<br />
** ccdB amp, cam, tet, kan in E.coli DH3<br />
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As our project for human practice, we carried out a survey about synthetic biology on the general public at the Oktoberfest, LMU Munich and the Municipal Secretary: [[Team:LMU-Munich/HumanPractice|Human practice]]<br />
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== '''Where we are from''' ==<br />
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We are students at Ludwigs-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
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When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
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We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to understand more about their knowledge on biology. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an urban authority.<br />
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For the English version of our original questionary, please click <br />
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<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
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The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
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We also had a few interviews:<br />
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Deutschlandradio Kultur<br />
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Biotechnologie TV http://www.biotechnologie.de/BIO/Navigation/DE/root,did=117452.html<br />
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Süddeutsche Zeitung / Bayerischem Rundfunk ...will come soon...<br />
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== Evaluation ==<br />
Altogether we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
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Generally, when we asked for misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered to that question. The most common answers have been following (we sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
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About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
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==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
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But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
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And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
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We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
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*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
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==University==<br />
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Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
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Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
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We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
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==Urban authority==<br />
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We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
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We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
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==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
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[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
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A few interesting results: <br />
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*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
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So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
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* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
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[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
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* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
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[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
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* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
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* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
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* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
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* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
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* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
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* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
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[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
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* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
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[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
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* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
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[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
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* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
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* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
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* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
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[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
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* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
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==Correlations==<br />
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<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
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As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
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*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
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... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
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There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
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<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
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We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
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*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
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... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
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People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
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<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
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We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
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*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
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Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
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<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
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Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
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*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
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... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
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This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
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<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
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We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
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*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
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... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
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<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
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We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
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*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
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... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to understand more about their knowledge on biology. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Altogether we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked for misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered to that question. The most common answers have been following (we sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
All in all many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of knowledge there seemed to be a uncertainty whether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with e.g. open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quite positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to understand more about their knowledge on biology. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Altogether we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked for misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered to that question. The most common answers have been following (we sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
<br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
Overall many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of information there seemed to be a uncertainty wether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quiet positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on this topic.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to understand more about their knowledge on biology. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Altogether we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out, why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
Generally, when we asked for misuses of synthetic biology, we got a huge amount of answers. 54.1% of all participants answered to that question. The most common answers have been following (we sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning...<br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes, we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology. <br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quite an international affair, in spite of the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey. <br />
And moreover it was the 200. anniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ... <br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities: <br />
*German (of course) <br />
*Italien <br />
*Libanese <br />
*Australien <br />
*Austrian <br />
*English <br />
*Danish <br />
*Indish <br />
*Indonesien <br />
*South African <br />
*Turkish <br />
*American <br />
*Dutch <br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
Overall many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of information there seemed to be a uncertainty wether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quiet positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on this topic.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of Munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to understand more about their knowledge on biology. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the Oktoberfest, at the University of Munich and an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the English version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The results of our survey turned out very interesting.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also don't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
Overall many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of information there seemed to be a uncertainty wether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quiet positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on this topic.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And moreover it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the "Festzelt" (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We guessed, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we considered going to the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we came up with an idea: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big difference<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also doesn't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
==conclusion==<br />
<br />
Overall many of the people we asked weren't informed on the topic of synthetic biology, but they were interested in getting further information. This could be realised by education in school and university, but also by infoevents and public discussions.<br />
<br />
Due to the lack of information there seemed to be a uncertainty wether to support research or not.<br />
<br />
Many who didn't want to support synthetic biology also didn't support genetical engineering. This is due to the problems and risks that are connected with manipulating organism. But also a few against genetical engineering were also for synthetic biology showing that many didn't feel a direct risk to their life by synthetic biology as with open field experiments of genetical engineering and mosanto.<br />
<br />
But at the end we had a quiet positiv picture and this could be even improved if the people would be better informed on this topic.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Canadian<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thought that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>If they would take medicine created by synthetic biology correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that those who would take such medicine, should also be for further research, as only if so would it be possible to create such medicine, but not all were<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who would take such medicine 56% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who wouldn't take such medicine 32% would support, 24% wouldn't support and 23% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Support of genitical engeneering correlated with support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We wanted to check if there were any "new opposers" or if all those who were against genetical engeneering also were against synthetic biology, as these two research fields relate to each other.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who support genetical engineering 68% would support, less than 1% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who don't support genetical engineering 15% would support, 27% wouldn't support and 55% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
And also of all who wouldn't support synthetic biology, 79% also doesn't support genetical engineering. So only 21% are "new opponents" seeing new problems in synthetic biology.<br />
But also some who don't support genetical engineering would support synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thougt that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thougt that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 55% would support, 6% wouldn't support and 32% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 40% would support, 11% wouldn't support and 44% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 61% would support, 4% wouldn't support and 28% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
People working in a trade really do seam to support it less and more of them are unsure than in the other two categories. But again it is not such a big difference.<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to if they think DNA in food is dangerous</b><br />
<br />
We thought maybe that the educational status might correlate with how much they are informed about such topics and used this question as an indication for this.<br />
<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who were students 27% thought DNA was dangerous, 64% thought it wasn't and 4% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who worked in a trade 48% thought DNA was dangerous, 47% thought it wasn't and 3% weren't sure<br />
*Of all the people who were academics 39% thought DNA was dangerous, 43% thought it wasn't and 2% weren't sure<br />
<br />
Here it seems quite clear that those working in a trade were less informed about such topics. Also academics weren't as informed as students. This could explain why less people working in a trade would support such research and why so many are unsure about such topics, as they aren't informed good enough.<br />
<br />
<b>If they think DNA in food is dangerous correlated with if they support synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
Here we wanted to test the theory, that people who are badly informed or even scared of such biological topics will support it lesser or make them unsure of what they should think about it.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA was dangerous 33% would support, 13% would not support and 45% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
*Of all the people who thought DNA wasn't dangerous 66% would support, 5% would not support and 26% aren't sure if they would support ...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
This shows that our theory seems right and that insecurity on such topics leads to disaproval or even more insecurity on the support issue.<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: again another graphic<br />
<br />
[[Image:offendedbecause.jpg]] <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thougt that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
As we thougt that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
<br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<b>Religous belief correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
As we thougt that people who are religious might feel offended by synthetic biology, we wanted to take a closer look at it to see if it was really so.<br />
<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as religious 43% would support, 15% wouldn't support and 15% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as atheists 48% would support, 5% wouldn't support and 2% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
*Of all the people who indicated themselves as agnostic or didn't indicate themselves 59% would support, 2% wouldn't support and 33% weren't sure if they would support...<br />
<br />
... research in the field of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
There seems to be a small tendency, that people who are religious would less support the research, but it isn't really a big tendency<br />
<br />
<b>Profession correlated to support of synthetic biology</b><br />
We thought that the profession might influence how people think about specific subjects. For example people, who work in a trade might not feel as much associated to such scientific fields as someone who is himself an academic.<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
<br />
==Correlations==<br />
<br />
<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state their opinion<br />
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==<font color="#9933CC">'''Human Practice'''</font>==<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). If misuse would have been impossible, 72.3% would support synthetic biology after all. So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
<br />
When we asked for misuses the participants would disapprove, we got a huge amount of answers by 54.1% of them but we can only list some of them (and sorted them into several categories): They fear of terrorism, weapons in general, commercial use, improving humans, cloning, commercial use.... <br />
<br />
About 63% wished to be better informed espacially via TV, radio, newspapers and the internet. Some of them wanted scientific information whereas others wanted general information, explained in an easy way.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
* what would be such a misuse: a graphic showing the result, but we needed to categorise the fears:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Fear.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Are they offended by synthetic biology (ethically, morally or religiously): again a graphic to illustrate the result<br />
<br />
[[Image:Offended.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Why are they offended: <br />
<br />
* Do they think the arrangement of gene banks is a good idea: 47% say yes it is a good thing, against the rest who finds it quite frightening<br />
<br />
* Do they feel themselves well equiped with knowledge to such biological topics: 21% say yes<br />
<br />
* Interested in further information: 63% say so and this is how they wish to be informed:<br />
<br />
[[Image:Informed.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Would they support further research in the field of synthetic biology: 52% say yes, 8% say no and 33% are not sure (yet) and the rest didn't state there opinion<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[image:umfrage1.png|700px|survey results]]<br />
<br />
A few interesting results: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
*Not interesting, but a difference: 100% of those from the university were students ...<br />
<br />
So we will now only show the overall data, as there really was not such a difference between the three locations. Let's first go through the questions and then we will go to special correlations between different answers.<br />
<br />
* Religious belief: just a short diagramm showing the three groups religious (all religions were considered), atheist and agnostic (which was also considered if no statement was made or the field crossed):<br />
<br />
[[Image:religious.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* Profession: again a diagramm showing the different groups we devided them into:<br />
<br />
[[Image:profession.jpg]]<br />
<br />
* heard of synthetic biology: 21%, after taking away those who gave wrong notations for synthetic biology, stated that they have heard of synthetic biology<br />
<br />
* knows Craig Venter: we included this question to exclude those who have only heard of synthetic biology from those who really know the subject. Sadly only 9% stated that they knew who Craig Venter was, some even that hadn't heard of synthetic biology, so that wasn't a good criteria<br />
<br />
* would take medicine created by synthetic biology if had a serious desease: 81% said they would do so<br />
<br />
* would drink beer with higher alcohol percentage created by synthetic yeast: 28% would go for the beer<br />
<br />
* would support research in synthetic biology if protected against misuse: 73% would do so<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again found 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 people, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 people on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
<br />
We asked 75 people with an age average of 24 years. Even though we didn't expect it we also found 3 extra nationalities to add to our list:<br />
*Kanadien<br />
*Venezuelan<br />
*French<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked 81 people with the age average of 33 years. And we again 5 more nationalities:<br />
*Bosnian<br />
*Greek<br />
*Nepalian<br />
*Kosovan<br />
*Marrocan<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
<br />
We asked 86 persons on the Oktoberfest with an age average of 26 years. Sadly it wasn't that international as we hoped ... for that we should have gone in the Festzelt (tent were you drink beer and dance drunk on the ale-bench) ... but we did get 13 different nationalities:<br />
*German (of course)<br />
*Italien<br />
*Libanese<br />
*Australien<br />
*Austrian<br />
*English<br />
*Danish<br />
*Indish<br />
*Indonesien<br />
*South African<br />
*Turkish<br />
*American<br />
*Dutch<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
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<!--- The Mission, Experiments ---><br />
==Notebook==<br />
<br />
You should make use of the calendar feature on the wiki and start a lab notebook. This may be looked at by the judges to see how your work progressed throughout the summer. It is a very useful organizational tool as well.<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! width="250"|[[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Apoptosis| ApoControl]]<br />
! width="250"|[[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Pathway | Pathway]]<br />
|}<br />
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==Protocols==<br />
<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/1 Competent cells|1 competent cells]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/2 Highly competent cells|2 highly competent cells]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/3 Transformation|3 Transformation]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/4 Plasmid extraction from cells|4 Plasmid extraction from cells]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/5 Restriction digest|5 Restriction digestion]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/6 SOB medium|6 SOB medium]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/7 Measurement of competence|7 Measurement of competence]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/8 SOC medium|8 SOC medium]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/9 Handling primers|9 Handling primers]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/10 PCR with Pfu| 10 PCR with Pfu]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/11 Agarose gel electrophoresis| 11 Agarose gel electrophoresis]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/12 Gel extraction or PCR Clean up| 12 Gel extraction or PCR Clean up (Promega kit)]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/13 3A Method for Biobrick assembly| 13 3A Method for Biobrick assembly]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/14 QIAEX II gel extraction| 14 QIAEX II gel extraction]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/15 PCR with Phusion| 15 PCR with Phusion]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/16 PCR with DreamTaq| 16 PCR with DreamTaq]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/17 Special thermal cycler programs|17 Special thermal cycler programs]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/18 Competent cells2|18 competent cells2]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/19 Transformation SSS|19 Transformation SSS]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/20 PCR with Phusion Hot Start|20 PCR with Phusion Hot Start]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/21 PCR with Taq Mastermix|21 PCR with Taq Mastermix]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/22 Ligation|22 Ligation]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/23 LB Medium|23 LB Medium]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/24 Colony PCR|24 Colony PCR]]<br />
* [[Team:LMU-Munich/Notebook/Protocols/25 PCR with Taq|PCR with Taq]]<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefore might seem frightening, would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't a severe difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evaluation presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|70px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
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==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
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<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
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When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
==Data==<br />
Surprisingly looking at the data there wasn't such a big difference between the three locations as we would have expected.<br />
<br />
A few interessting things maybe: <br />
<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 42% would go for the beer with higher alcohol compared to overall only 28%. (well maybe not that surprising ...)<br />
*On the Oktoberfest 27% indicated that they have heard of synthetic biology, but taking a closer look to there meeting with synthetic biology, we realised that only 20% might have really heard of synthetic biology ... this shows the overestimating effect of alcohol.<br />
*31% and so quite more than on the Oktoberfest had heard of synthetic biology on the university<br />
*Only 16% had heard of synthetic biology at the urban authority<br />
*Only 24% on the university were religious compared to overall 38% ...<br />
<br />
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=Human Practice=<br />
<br />
When we were thinking about how to do human practice, we first wanted to present synthetic biology, the iGEM competition and our team at a stand in the middle of munich. But while discussing what information we wanted to provide, we recognized that we don´t know what people already know about this topic. <br />
So we changed our plans and conducted a survey on synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
We asked people on their opinion of several topics, including some questions to check on their knowledge. To gather a broad range of participants, we asked people on the "Oktoberfest", in the University of Munich and while waiting at an urban authority.<br />
<br />
For the english version of our original questionary, please click <br />
<html><br />
<a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/d/d9/IGEM-Umfragefertigenglisch.pdf">here</a href></html>. We also distributed a german version.<br />
<br />
The evalution presents interesting figures of our survey.<br />
<br />
== Evaluation ==<br />
Overall we asked 242 persons, with an age average of 25 years. Interestingly a bit over 51 % would support further research in synthetic biology and only about 8% wouldn't. The rest wasn't sure (yet). So let's take a closer look at the data to find out why they don't want to support it and what they know about it.<br />
[[Image:Beer.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
==Oktoberfest==<br />
Yes we know it is a quite strange idea to go to a crowded place, where everyone goes just to drink beer and have fun, and ask question about such a sophisticated topic as synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
But the tempting thing about the Oktoberfest is that it is quiet a international affair, in spite the fact that it should be a typically bavarian tradition. Together with the fact that we thought we would meet quite a broad range of people, and that these might be even more honest having a high blood alcohol, we thought it would be an interesting and maybe quite fun place to go with this survey.<br />
<br />
And overall it was the 200. aniversary of this tradition, so it had to be good ...<br />
[[Image:Hat.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==University==<br />
<br />
Of course ourselves being students, we also wanted to check out what other students thought about the idea of synthetic biology. We thougt, as students do have a high educational standard we might see a difference to what people think at the Oktoberfest. <br />
<br />
Our theory in this case was, that people, who aren't informed about a topic that might include possible misuse potential, and therefor might seem frightening would also have a bad opinion about that subject. So we hoped to see if there might be a correlation between education and knowledge about this particular subject and the support for this subject.<br />
[[Image:Stamp.jpg|100px|right]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Urban authority==<br />
<br />
We did find a broad public at the Oktoberfest, but as many of them were not to say a bit drunk, we thought of another place with many people, that isn't exactly linked to a special group. So we thought of the urban authority, and as people have to wait there for quite a while ... we thought: perfect, let's sugar the pill and shorten there waiting time with a little synthetic biology.<br />
<br />
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