Team:Shenzhen SFLS/HP/CRISPR Popularization CRISPR Questionnaire
CRISPR Questionnaire
We conducted a survey to investigate common public misconceptions about CRISPR.
Question 3: What is CRISPR?
Result: Through this survey, we found the public knew the application of CRISPR. It maybe caused by the popularization of CRISPR application through mass media. 48.8% of the participants considered CRISPR a kind of immune system. (Answer for Question 3 - Immune System)
However, people had no idea about the origin of CRISPR
Question 4: What is the origin of CRISPR?
Result: According to the data above, we found that only half of the participants knew that CRISPR originated from germs.
We also raised questions about ethical issues of CRISPR to investigate the attitudes towards CRISPR of the public.
When it came to the question that whether CRISPR would be applied to practice, about 74.07% of the participants considered CRISPR could be used in treatment of human,which indicated that most of people believed CRISPR could benefit human beings. However, there were still a minority of people doubt about the potential ethical issues and the future development of CRISPR.
In conclusion, the public’s attitude towards CRISPR is optimistic.They believed that CRISPR technology has a great prospect in the future.
CRISPR articles
We published a summary article about our result of CRISPR investigation at our WeChat Official Account and online forum ZhiHu. In this article, we showed the right answers of this questionnaire, the pros and cons of CRISPR/Cas9 system and its prospects.
P1:The CRISPR investigation articles we published at our Wechat official account
P2:The CRISPR investigation articles we published on online forum ZhiHu
Related activities
On October 25th, we delivered a speech at Class3 Grade 6, Donghai Primary School Attached to Shenzhen Foreign Languages School.
We started the activity with a series of quiz .
Then we told them some stories of the history of biology research and introduced them some basic knowledge of DNA. After that we played a DNA base-paring game with the children, leading them to learn more about biology.
Before ending the class, we gave out the same questionnaire to the children again and investigated how our speech affected them.
Our statistics showed that our biology class seemed pretty successful.
On 27th Oct 2017, BGIC-Unoin and our team went to ShenZhen Baihe Foreign Language School to give a speech about our project. The content of the speech included iGEM presentation, cancer introduction, gene therapy and CRISPR/Cas 9 system.
After the speech, we conducted a survey about CRISPR. The statistic showed that after our presentation students understood the related information of our speech better.
