Publizing with new media

Our track this year is foundational advance，and the product---miRNA inhibitors is not familiar with the public. Therefore, if we want to have the public engaged in our work, the very first thing is to let them make friends with miRNA and our project!

In order to achieve a greater influence and outreach, we decided to have our popular science article pushed by WeChat subscriptionThe WeChat ID of the subscription account is zaxue8, it aims to spread knowledge to the masses. In addition, we used many internet memes in this article for a more vivid expression, and it worked just as we expected!

By now, 2666 people have read this article, and the number is still increasing. Since it is on the internet, people can open it not limited by time and space. And we can acquire the effectiveness of the publizing conveniently by reading rate and top comments.

You can read the article below as well as scaning the QR code by WeChat to read our articles on your phone:

Since we estimate miRNA is not popular among masses, we attached a small survey at the end of the article, and the result is:

This result shows that the miRNA popularization still has a long way to go, and it might take a long time before taking the second step.

Do you want a picture book?

Many people, like me, will probably feel bored to read something contain nothing but words, especially when the words is about learning. I realized it after I entered college to find there are too few illustrations in textbooks. We do not want others to feel the same when they try to read our pamphlets, so we made it a beautiful picture book, printed and separated.

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Lecture in high school

High school students are young, vibrant, and always open to new things.

Last year, our team had Lab open day for some high school students. One named Zhang Herui, showed great interest in iGEM competition and synthetic biology and was recruited into our team. This year, considered there are few references of miRNA mentioned in textbooks, we walked into her school to fill the blanks and introduce our project.

Moving our glow sticks for synthetic biology

In June, our team was invited to give a lecture on iTED Sharing held by the Squirrel Club of NUDT, the theme of the lecture is biotech 2.0-the synthetic biology and iGEM in my eyes. Through this lecture, we gave the present students an introduction of our research field. We aimed to share our ideas with undergraduates and get feedbacks form the interactive section. Also the popularization of synthetic biology is achieved.