Team:UCL Academy/HumanPractice

From 2014hs.igem.org

HUMAN PRACTICE ACTIVITIES

Synthetic vs Natural Synbio Outreach Commercial algal growth containment

Abstract

Starting our project, we were interested in how algael growth is limited in commercial environments. We conducted research in two different environments - a zebrafish laboratory and a commercial aquarium. Following the news that consumer goods use unlabelled synthetic biology products, we investigated our community's response to the 'synthetic vs. natural' debate. We produced a short video of a dystopian fictional scenario to help our test group visualise an urgent situation.