Team:Cambridge/Human Practices

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Human practises encompasses the social ethical and legal considerations of our work. We imagined how our particular project might impact on peoples lives as well as thinking about the wider issues of the way we practise our science and share our findings. To help publicise our conclusions we produced a short video summarising the arguments for openness in research.
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Human practises encompasses the social ethical and legal considerations of our work. We imagined how our particular project might impact on peoples lives as well as thinking about the wider issues of the way we practise our science and share our findings. To help publicise our conclusions we produced a [http://cambridgeigem.org/video2.php?nojs=true short video] summarising the arguments for openness in research.
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After coming to these conclusions from our discussions we made sure we conducted our research in the light of these ideas. We got our Wiki up as early as possible with our aims and ideas and kept the online lab book updated with our ongoing research. We always endeavoured to be open and honest about exactly the protocols we were using and what results they gave. The [https://2010.igem.org/Team:UNAM-Genomics_Mexico UNAM Genomics, Mexico] team contacted us because of the information on our Wiki and we were able to collaborate with them and help them with part of their project. We were also able to have useful discussions with the [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh Edinburgh] team based on information we read on each other’s Wikis. From our thoughts about sharing our findings we decided that we should put effort into publicising our science. Our project will be featured on a documentary to be broadcast on [http://www.arte.tv/fr/70.html ARTE] which will bring a better understanding of synthetic biology to the general public. We also wanted to get a message across to the scientific community; the [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Gibson/Introduction Gibson assembly] technique which we performed frequently is not as widely used as we believe it could be so we chose this to publicise and produced a [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Videos music video] to do so. The song has over 3000 views so far and researchers have contacted us for more information about our experience with the technique.
After coming to these conclusions from our discussions we made sure we conducted our research in the light of these ideas. We got our Wiki up as early as possible with our aims and ideas and kept the online lab book updated with our ongoing research. We always endeavoured to be open and honest about exactly the protocols we were using and what results they gave. The [https://2010.igem.org/Team:UNAM-Genomics_Mexico UNAM Genomics, Mexico] team contacted us because of the information on our Wiki and we were able to collaborate with them and help them with part of their project. We were also able to have useful discussions with the [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Edinburgh Edinburgh] team based on information we read on each other’s Wikis. From our thoughts about sharing our findings we decided that we should put effort into publicising our science. Our project will be featured on a documentary to be broadcast on [http://www.arte.tv/fr/70.html ARTE] which will bring a better understanding of synthetic biology to the general public. We also wanted to get a message across to the scientific community; the [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Gibson/Introduction Gibson assembly] technique which we performed frequently is not as widely used as we believe it could be so we chose this to publicise and produced a [https://2010.igem.org/Team:Cambridge/Videos music video] to do so. The song has over 3000 views so far and researchers have contacted us for more information about our experience with the technique.
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Many iGEM teams were similarly open with their ideas and results and this helped to foster the culture of collaboration that we believe is important to iGEM. We were however disappointed to see that some teams were less open. Three weeks before the wiki freeze 58 of the 127 teams participating had little more than an abstract on their wiki. This meant we were unable to engage in potentially valuable dialogue because we had little idea about what they were researching. To help encourage future teams and scientists generally to be more open with their work we produced a short video summarising our arguments. Previous iGEM teams have made interesting contributions to the field of human practises which perhaps have not had the desired effect on the way people conduct their science because not enough other scientists have seen them. We hope a short and more light-hearted summary might reach more people and help translate our conclusions into future action.
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Many iGEM teams were similarly open with their ideas and results and this helped to foster the culture of collaboration that we believe is important to iGEM. We were however disappointed to see that some teams were less open. Three weeks before the wiki freeze 58 of the 127 teams participating had little more than an abstract on their wiki. This meant we were unable to engage in potentially valuable dialogue because we had little idea about what they were researching. To help encourage future teams and scientists generally to be more open with their work we produced a [http://cambridgeigem.org/video2.php?nojs=true short video] summarising our arguments. Previous iGEM teams have made interesting contributions to the field of human practises which perhaps have not had the desired effect on the way people conduct their science because not enough other scientists have seen them. We hope a short and more light-hearted summary might reach more people and help translate our conclusions into future action.
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