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<h1>Silver Medal Human Practices</h1>
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<p>iGEM teams are leading in the area of Human Practices because they conduct their projects within a social/environmental context, to better understand issues that might influence the design and use of their technologies.</p>
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<p>Teams work with students and advisors from the humanities and social sciences to explore topics concerning ethical, legal, social, economic, safety or security issues related to their work. Consideration of these Human Practices is crucial for building safe and sustainable projects that serve the public interest. </p>
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<p>For more information, please see the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Competition/Human_Practices">Human Practices page</a>.</p>
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Creation of a new diagnostic tool takes more than research and development. Implementation of such a device means it will be brought in direct contact with society. To ensure that our work is safe for the end user and prevent miscommunication about the purpose of the technology, it is essential to consider the social aspects that our tool will bring. Apart from engaging our local communities with our project, which can be read on the <a href="https://2017.igem.org/Team:Wageningen_UR/Engagement">Education and Public Engagement page</a>, we also discussed the implications of Mantis with experts on biosafety and ethics. By this, we aim to create a safe and responsible technology that will be accepted by society. Feedback obtained from these discussions was integrated into the project, resulting in guidelines and laboratory safety protocols. Furthermore, it allowed us to consider all ethical aspects that are associated with implementing the device into society, such as risk perception and user responsibility. To translate the knowledge we gained on biosafety to society, a comic was created. Here, a friendly bacterium called Modidi explains the risks associated with genetically modified organisms, as well as their risk perception. A detailed description on the four resources below can be found by clicking the buttons at the bottom:</p>
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<li> <b>Comic: </b>This comic is targeted to the public to inform them about the importance of considering the perception of risk from a general and scientific context. For example, although some genetic modified organisms indeed have potential to cause disasters, other ones are not as dangerous. </li>
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<li> <b>Ethics: </b>In this section you can find a personal ethical analysis about risk perception, transfer of responsibility and the autonomy of patients concerning diagnostics. </li>
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<li> <b>Biosafety: </b>In this section you can find information about safety issues concerning our device and synthetic biology in general. One of the aspects that is discussed is biocontainment. Risk assessment and safety assessment techniques are also proposed. </li>
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<li> <b>Lab Safety: </b>In this section you can find the different rules that we have followed in our work environment to ensure safe working conditions.</li>
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<p>Convince the judges you have thought carefully and creatively about whether your work is safe, responsible and good for the world. You could accomplish this through engaging with your local, national and/or international communities or other approaches. Please note that standard surveys will not fulfill this criteria.</p>
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<h5>Some Human Practices topic areas </h5>
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<p>On this page, you should write about the Human Practices topics you considered in your project, and document any special activities you did (such as visiting experts, talking to lawmakers, or doing public engagement). This should include all of the work done for the Silver Medal Criterion #3. Details for your Gold medal work and/or work for the two Human Practices special prizes should be put on those specified pages.</p>
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Safety and Ethics

Creation of a new diagnostic tool takes more than research and development. Implementation of such a device means it will be brought in direct contact with society. To ensure that our work is safe for the end user and prevent miscommunication about the purpose of the technology, it is essential to consider the social aspects that our tool will bring. Apart from engaging our local communities with our project, which can be read on the Education and Public Engagement page, we also discussed the implications of Mantis with experts on biosafety and ethics. By this, we aim to create a safe and responsible technology that will be accepted by society. Feedback obtained from these discussions was integrated into the project, resulting in guidelines and laboratory safety protocols. Furthermore, it allowed us to consider all ethical aspects that are associated with implementing the device into society, such as risk perception and user responsibility. To translate the knowledge we gained on biosafety to society, a comic was created. Here, a friendly bacterium called Modidi explains the risks associated with genetically modified organisms, as well as their risk perception. A detailed description on the four resources below can be found by clicking the buttons at the bottom:

  • Comic: This comic is targeted to the public to inform them about the importance of considering the perception of risk from a general and scientific context. For example, although some genetic modified organisms indeed have potential to cause disasters, other ones are not as dangerous.
  • Ethics: In this section you can find a personal ethical analysis about risk perception, transfer of responsibility and the autonomy of patients concerning diagnostics.
  • Biosafety: In this section you can find information about safety issues concerning our device and synthetic biology in general. One of the aspects that is discussed is biocontainment. Risk assessment and safety assessment techniques are also proposed.
  • Lab Safety: In this section you can find the different rules that we have followed in our work environment to ensure safe working conditions.