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− | <div class="text">1. Ethics Guide: | + | <div class="text"> |
− | The road to ethics in science looked daunting and confusing. As a contribution for future iGEM teams, and in collaboration with SynthEthics, we created an ethics guide. It is a six-step guide for how we can analyze and reduce moral ambiguities in our iGEM projects and ideas. We used CIDosis and the iGEM Lund 2020 team’s project, Protecto, as cases-in-point for easy understanding and interpretation. Do give it a read!
| + | Apart from the work directly related to developing the CIDosis patch, a lot of our iGEM journey was dedicated to interacting with the iGEM community, as well as different local communities to spread the word of science, help each other learn and grow, and develop new and exciting skills ourselves. Under here you’ll find a handful of the things you can read more about on our wiki! |
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− | 2. Children’s Book:
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− | Our team is not short of artists! To inculcate passion for science and synthetic biology among children from an early age, we made the first edition of what we believe would be a series of children’s books. Named “My Sister Can Talk with Bacteria”, we hope to sensitize and educate young minds on genetic engineering, while emphasizing the importance of women in science. Other iGEM teams also helped us in translating the book to Arabic, Dutch and Japanese! | + | Since ethical considerations surrounding working with chronically ill people was such a big part of our project this year, we decided to develop an ethics guide as our contribution to the iGEM community. The guide was developed in collaboration with SynthEthics, and serves as a six step guide for future iGEM teams to analyze and reduce moral ambiguities in their iGEM projects and ideas. We used CIDosis and the iGEM Lund 2020 team’s project, Protecto, as example cases for easy understanding and interpretation. Do give it a read! |
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− | 3. Partnership with iGEM 2020 Team from Aalto:
| + | <b>Children’s Book</b><br> |
− | We partnered with the iGEM Team from Aalto-Helsinki for the most part of our iGEM journey – initially, we met in the spring for a coffee hour and the professional relationship strengthened through the summer and fall as we partnered on troubleshooting each other’s dry lab and organized an ethics workshop for various Nordic teams. Thanks to this partnership, we decided to include Rosetta in our dry lab modelling.
| + | To inculcate passion for science and synthetic biology among children from an early age, we made the first installment of what we envision to be a series of children’s books. The first book, “My Sister Can Talk with Bacteria”, explains the concept of bacterial transformation, while future books will explain other synbio techniques, such as PCRs or protein fusions, or cellular processes such as cell division. With this, we hope to sensitize and educate young minds on genetic engineering, while emphasizing the importance of women in science. Other iGEM teams also helped us in translating the book to Arabic, Dutch and Japanese! |
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− | 4. Publications:
| + | <b>Partnership with iGEM Team Aalto-Helsinki</b><br> |
− | The iGEM team from Maastricht organized a peer-reviewed journal in the summer. We were ecstatic to know that our article got voted to be published in the journal. We are thankful to the MSP team for allowing us this opportunity and helping us hone our academic writing skills through peer review.
| + | We partnered with iGEM Team Aalto-Helsinki for the most part of our iGEM journey. We met in the spring for a coffee hour, and the professional relationship strengthened through the summer and fall as we partnered on troubleshooting each other’s dry lab models and organized an ethics workshop for various Nordic teams. |
− | We were approached by the iGEM Taiwan teams for a “I’ve Gotta PhD” initiative for which we contributed an article on the mental health effects of having a chronic inflammatory disease among patients.
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− | 5. Entrepreneurship:
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− | The University of Copenhagen has at least three different innovation and incubator hubs that guide students, employees, and others on the fundamentals of planning and launching a start-up through various workshops spread throughout the year. For CIDosis, we approached the hub at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, called SUND Hub, to mentor our team. We joined the annual SUND Hub Incubator Program where we were enlightened on a wide range of topics from engagement with stakeholders and customer segmentation to regulatory pathways for medical devices. We also made a business canvas for our project.
| + | As part of iGEM Team MSP-Maastricht’s initiative to produce a peer-reviewed journal, we wrote an article explaining the science behind our project and were voted to be published in the journal. We are thankful to the MSP team for allowing us this opportunity and helping us hone our academic writing skills through peer review. |
| + | We were also approached by the iGEM Taiwan teams for their “I’ve Gotta PhD” initiative for which we contributed an article on the mental health effects of devices such as our patch on patients with CIDs. |
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− | 6. Other education initiatives:
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− | Based on our survey among medical students, we discovered that 22% students did not know what synthetic biology was, and most thought it had little application in healthcare. We set out to educate other students on the importance and growing applications of synthetic biology, first targeting the high school students at a public school in Copenhagen and another high school talent program called Academy for Talented Youth (ATU). We also arranged a workshop at the Biotech Academy, Copenhagen and will be organizing a second one with personalized kits in late November.</div>
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| + | The University of Copenhagen has at least three different innovation and incubator hubs that guide students, employees, and others on the fundamentals of planning and launching a start-up through various workshops spread throughout the year. For CIDosis, we approached the hub at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, called SUND Hub, to mentor our team. We joined the annual SUND Hub Incubator Program where we were enlightened on a wide range of topics from engagement with stakeholders and customer segmentation to regulatory pathways for medical devices. |
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