This year the project of BIT is about the alarm of breast cancer, based on early detection of the factors, miRNA155 and miRNA21. In the last six months, the work of human practice based on the project, made different kinds of activities. The activities about the practice including:

1.Making a questionnaire aims at surveying the public perceptions for breast cancer;
2.In the hospital we have a survey in order to get the information about the diagnosis condition of breast cancer;
3.Introducing IGEM and the project of our team in a conference held in the college and a high school.

Besides,Team BIT builds relationship with 5 teams and has a interactive communication with other 2 teams, and joined two different communication meetings during the summer vacation, getting many appreciation and comments.

In order to make more people know team’s project, the meaning of iGEM and get some feedback from different persons about their opinions to breast caner. This year Team BIT issues an questionnaire through the Internet, with both Chinese and English versions and gets information after collecting the questionnaire. The questions are centered on the personal health, physical examination, the understanding of breast cancer and the team’s products. The questionnaire was distributed online in March 2016, ended in October 2016 and received 299 valid feedback which are very helpful for the progress of project.

Because the questionnaire was spread to the public and more than half of persons investigated have not heard about iGEM and synthetic biology before. It’s a normal phenomenon existing in the public and it’s important to make more people know iGEM and synthetic biology.

-Q29.Do you know about Synthetic biology?*

A.YES

B.NO

On September 22, team BIT had a preach in the affiliated high school of Beijing Institute of technology. The main content was the introduction of Synthetic biology which was in order to let students know more about the emerging field of biological and the present biological technology and also introduced something of IGEM. During the Q&A time the classmates asked many questions about the biological and synthetic biology and believed that most of them had interests in this subject.

On September 23 Team BIT together with BIT-CHINA held a session for the class of 2016 undergraduates in Beijing Institute of Technology. Because most of the students’ knowledge of biology was just stayed in the stage of high school, the whole session was on the basis of synthetic biology knowledge and then extended to the projects of two IGEM teams. Before the beginning of session, Team BIT had distributed the leaflets which included brief introduction of our project to the students. The whole session lasted almost two hours and had great feedback.