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In this year, human practices were integrated to the whole process of our project as the following flowchart (Fig.1).

      Our team has always focused on solving the existing issue seen in the society, and we value our connection with the vast public as well as our counterparts. For the year of 2017, we picked up two candidate projects – both of which were trying to provide possible solutions to present-day issues – one was “Rabies Vaccine Taken by Mouth” and the other was “Rhythmic Production of Melatonin in E. coli”. We always want to be of help of our world; so before making the final choice, we looked carefully into the potential social and scientific value of both projects, by means of initiating field survey, interview professors and experts from universities and authorities as well as collaborating with other iGEM teams.
      Our team has always focused on solving the existing issue seen in the society, and we value our connection with the vast public as well as our counterparts. For the year of 2017, we picked up two candidate projects – both of which were trying to provide possible solutions to present-day issues – one was “Rabies Vaccine Taken by Mouth” and the other was “Rhythmic Production of Melatonin in E. coli”. We always want to be of help of our world; so before making the final choice, we looked carefully into the potential social and scientific value of both projects, by means of initiating field survey, interview professors and experts from universities and authorities as well as collaborating with other iGEM teams.
      We initiated a field survey on the sleeping quality and solutions Human Practice-Survey-Questionnairs to sleeping issues on the streets and via the Web. The questionnaire used in the survey contains questions considering sleeping quality of both groups having regular timetable and working at night, respectively, and the questions on solving sleeping problems and views on using medicine to improve sleeping quality. The result shows that a large portion of interviewees had sleeping problems, some of which suffered from severe symptoms; however, few figured out a way to tackle with the issues. Meanwhile, when it comes to the medicine, basic acknowledgement of traditional benzodiazepines medicines was observed, but seldom do people know about the medicine of melatonin.
      To conclude, according to the survey, we regard it very meaningful and prospective to employ the synthetic biology approaches to present new solutions to the issues considering sleeping. With this knowledge as assurance, we began our design on the project tackling sleeping problems.
      While we find the project on melatonin more interesting and promising, the iSWU conference led us to our final decision. iSWU is the organization consisting of all the iGEM team in the southwest of China, providing us the platform to share with each other our projects and thoughts on synthetic biology. At the conference, all of the teams introduced their project prototype and made comments on others’ designs. At the meeting, a professor from TMMU with rich experience in immunology suggested that if we do the project about the rabies vaccine, unpreventable immunology experiments would cost a lot of time and the results would be highly unpredictable as well – in a word, it would be very difficult to complete all the experiments within three months’ time. The new information tilts the balance one step more.
      After carefully evaluating the advice from other team and comparing the two projects, we chose “Rhythmic Production of Melatonin in E.coli” because it was more practical with more predictable result