Team:UEA-JIC Norwich/Human practices/Interviews

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University of East Anglia-JIC

Interviews

For our human practices we decided to answer the question "Is synthetic biology feared"? This was investigated by conducting small interviews in order to explore whether the topic of synthetic biology is feared and if so the reasons behind these fears.

  Interview One

  Interview Two

  Interview Three

  Interview Four

  Interview Five

  Interview Six

  Interview Seven

  Interview Eight

  Interview Nine

  Interview Ten

  Interview Eleven

  Interview Twelve
Quantitative Data:

In order to collect quantitative data, we showed participants the following images during an interview and asks them to determine whether they perceived the image as being under synthetic biology, genetic modification, natural, or a combination of both.

Figure 1.A shows a Tricolour Beagle dog, which was selectively bred to give the modern breed. Image B shows that 86% of the people we interviewed perceived the Beagle to be natural. However, 14% concluded it may also be genetically modified in terms of selective breeding, although does not involve the introduction of genes from a different species.

Fig 1.A. Beagle Image. B. Image data interpretation.

Figure 2.A. shows an image of Dr Jay Vacanti work of successful growth of a human ear from cartilage cells on the back of a mouse. Image B shows that 29% of people associated the image with synthetic biology, and 71% associated it with genetic modification.

Fig 2.A Dr Vacanti's appendage donor mouse image. B. Image data interpretation

Figure 3.A. shows an image of a wild African bush elephant. Image B shows that 100% of people recognised it was natural.

Fig 3.A Wild Elephant image. B. Image data interpretation

Fig 4.A E.coli expressing GFP image. B. Image data interpretation

Fig 5.A Purple Tomatoes image. B. Image data interpretation

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