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Team:Edinburgh/Human
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Human BRIDGEs - Human practices
What happens within the iGEM competition that doesn't involve humans?
Very little, is our answer.
Therefore, what has relevance to human practices? Almost everything.
Human practices permeate throughout all aspects of the iGEM competition, from the identities (in the broadest sense) of participants and the teams they are within, to the decisions on project focus and lab work, to the more obvious parts such as ethics.
iGEM is a multidisciplinary experience. This situation lends itself to the encouraging of awareness of other ways of thinking than what one is used to. Through the interaction of people from various disciplines the way in which one starts to perceive what one is doing from another perspective. We have furthered that expansion during our time within the University of Edinburgh iGEM team by questioning how we see things from ethics to themselves as individuals.
Our Project
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Table of Contents
- A summary of what we achieved through the human aspects component of our project.
- Our vision of the future of the human aspects of synthetic biology, and where we would like to go next.
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References used throughout the section.
