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Team:Paris Bettencourt/HumanPractice
From 2011.igem.org
After many unsuccessful attempts at creating a viable (may it be anthropological, sociological, ethical etc.) I have come up with the following idea with our main supervisor.
Updates
August 5: A citizen and scientific proposal on Synthetic Biology
Much like in the early times of Biotechnology scientists gathered and set for themselves some basic standards and practices on both ethical and pragmatic issues I believe that it is time we, iGEMers, as future researchers are entitled to have our word on how the field of synthetic biology (as well as the iGEM competition) ought to look like. Did you know that the President Obama asked last year for a report on bioethical issues regarding Synthetic Biology. the report came out in December 2010 and included a set of recommendations that the discussion panel deemed necessary. Good. Better yet: why not produce a more down-to-earth proposal on synthetic biology ?
As an interesting turn of fate 2012 happens to be the year in which both French and US Presidential elections are happening (and 2013 for the German ones), what if we could produce a unified document that could potentially change the face of how Science is done? Ambitious? Most probably BUT if we co-operate on European level such an aim is completely attainable.
I am therefore setting a call to all Human Practitioners of other European teams, let's work together and try to do something BIG.
Please find the outline I propose for the co-operative project
