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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://2016.igem.org/Human_Practices">Human Practices Hub</a>.</p>
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<p>You must fill out this page in order to be considered for all <a href="https://2016.igem.org/Judging/Awards">awards</a> for Human Practices:</p>
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This year Uppsala iGEM had our focus on making sure that our microfluidic methods were as accessible as possible. With this in mind we cooperated with the newly started company Makerspace, that provides necessities for biohackers, with the purpose of improving their lab work possibilities. We therefore wrote a manufacturing manual according to our microfluidic method, which we sent together with CAD designs of chips. While we asked biohackers for feedback on the manual in order to make it as comprehensible as possible, our ultimate wish was to provide public users, such as biohackers, the possibility to themselves develop the knowledge of how to perform lab procedures as well as more scientific understanding.
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The principle behind microfluidics also makes our chip a more economical alternative of performing certain procedures, which also would greatly assist low budget labs. One of the things we did was therefore to approximate the cost of our prototype heat shock chip in order to get an understanding of how much they could save. What we saw was that using the chip instead of the standard method of transformation potentially differed quite a lot, even for a simple procedure such as heat shock transformation.
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This is just a short description of what we did in order to improve the accessibility of our microfluidics and to provide information to potential users. For more information, continued reading is available as explained below.
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The price of Transformation page is connected to the human practice silver criteria and it contains all the information concerning the price calculations performed on the chip prototype data. This is used to approximate how much could potentially be saved by using our microfluidics method.
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The Manual page is connected to the human practice gold criteria and contains the information concerning the manual we wrote to make the manufacturing method easy to understand, as well as how we improved this manual based on the feedback provided by Makerspace.
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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).</p>
 
 
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The Integrated Practices page contains a short description on how we integrated the Makerspace feedback into our project.
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<li><a href="https://2014.igem.org/Team:Dundee/policypractice/experts">2014 Dundee </a></li>
 
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The Engagement page contains information concerning our reasoning behind reaching out to Makerspace and other presentations that we have held in order to reach out to the public.
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Latest revision as of 21:15, 18 October 2016

Human Practices

This year Uppsala iGEM had our focus on making sure that our microfluidic methods were as accessible as possible. With this in mind we cooperated with the newly started company Makerspace, that provides necessities for biohackers, with the purpose of improving their lab work possibilities. We therefore wrote a manufacturing manual according to our microfluidic method, which we sent together with CAD designs of chips. While we asked biohackers for feedback on the manual in order to make it as comprehensible as possible, our ultimate wish was to provide public users, such as biohackers, the possibility to themselves develop the knowledge of how to perform lab procedures as well as more scientific understanding. The principle behind microfluidics also makes our chip a more economical alternative of performing certain procedures, which also would greatly assist low budget labs. One of the things we did was therefore to approximate the cost of our prototype heat shock chip in order to get an understanding of how much they could save. What we saw was that using the chip instead of the standard method of transformation potentially differed quite a lot, even for a simple procedure such as heat shock transformation. This is just a short description of what we did in order to improve the accessibility of our microfluidics and to provide information to potential users. For more information, continued reading is available as explained below.

The price of Transformation page is connected to the human practice silver criteria and it contains all the information concerning the price calculations performed on the chip prototype data. This is used to approximate how much could potentially be saved by using our microfluidics method.

Price of Transformation

The Manual page is connected to the human practice gold criteria and contains the information concerning the manual we wrote to make the manufacturing method easy to understand, as well as how we improved this manual based on the feedback provided by Makerspace.

The Manual

The Integrated Practices page contains a short description on how we integrated the Makerspace feedback into our project.

Integrated Practice

The Engagement page contains information concerning our reasoning behind reaching out to Makerspace and other presentations that we have held in order to reach out to the public.

Engagement