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The human practices team is integrated by: Valery Díaz, Arturo Nieves, José Alejandro Ng, Fotis Stringos, Miguel Cárdenas , Lucia Palma(as advisor) and other members of the iGEM team interested to help the Human Practices area.

From the earliest stages of human evolution when homo sapiens hominids apart from the others hominids, the ability to create progresively better tools and most importantly ,the capability of transfer information between individuals has led the advancement of society. Since the tribes and clans, their ability to frame and transmit knowledge as science is one of the basic human capacities that have decided many scientific discoveries and social changes through human history. Every new revolution has to embrace the critic eye of the people. Similarly, our team thinks we should treat the introduction of synthetic biology to the society of our country as a factor in the equation that helps our country to rise gradually from the third world.

HUMAN PRACTICE PROJECT

Introduction

Background

The Problem

In our role as iGemers , we face many issues to develop the synthetic biology in our country. Some of them were :

1. Explain and introduce what is synthetic biology at all levels of society, emphasizing the engineers.
2. Planning a synthetic biology project.
3. Be able to find all the availability of institutions and the clear regulatory frame to develop our endevour.
4. Be able to cover all the implications and possibilities that synthetic biology brings to the human civilization, both positive and negative.

===Our Project===
Our team's goal was to introduce and disseminate the issues and implications related to synthetic biology. To meet these objectives we developed three separate projects:
1. The development of an education campaign about synthetic biology topics inside our team, in order to achieve a campaign at the university level (engineers).
2. The development of an interactive software introducing the basics of synthetic biology.
3. The development of an interactive software that assists the user in the execution of projects related to synthetic biology.
Here are the parts of our project:

I. OUTREACH

Our first challenge was to train traditional engineers (not trained in life-science) in the field of synthetic biology, especially in traditional engineering applications.

II. WHAT IS SB UTP 1.0?

The UTP-Panama team developed a plan to introduce the concepts of synthetic biology to the people who are not acquainted with the field of synthetic biology to the theoretical foundations, applications, and finally the social implications of this science. The program also introduces the iGEM competition. The great contribution of the program is to introduce users to the recommendations and ethical principles discussed in the PCSBI, Human Practice Trust, and other reports as a reference to the ethical, legal and social issues.

III. WHAT IS SB UTP PROJECT 1.0?

One of the main questions when we are developing a synthetic biology project is to know where to go (institutions) under what legal framework for both scientific research and commercial projects, what we could find in ethical challenges and how to introduce these issues into the education system. UTP SB PROJECT 1.0 is aiming to set the questions to be asked and answered when developing a project related to synthetic biology. Our program also seeks to link the sources of information to help address these questions.

UTP-Panama The team encourages other teams and other players in the field of synthetic biology to collaborate with the growth and improvement of our program to include other aspects and problems that we havent developed in this first initiative.

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 == I.	OUTREACH ==
-Our first challenge was to train traditional engineers (not trained in life-science) in the field of synthetic biology, especially on traditional engineering applications.<br>
+Our first challenge was to train traditional engineers (not trained in life-science) in the field of synthetic biology, especially in traditional engineering applications.<br>
 == II.	WHAT IS SB UTP 1.0? ==