Team:NUDT CHINA/Human Practices
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Overview
In our project this year, we designed a novel cell-free platform built with synthetic bio-components to achieve the low-cost, handy and visualized detection of serum miRNAs, which can be employed in low-resource settings. The idea that we chose this topic was to serve the world with a novel early cancer detection system that could help more people, especially in remote areas to take early screening and detection of cancers.
However, to help with the fight against cancer, developing new technologies and applications is not enough. Thus We distributed our Human Practice work in three parts based on our project.
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HP Modules |
Activities |
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Collaborations with Hospital & Health Center |
Interviews with Doctors |
Survey in the Hospital |
sample collecting |
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Product Evaluation |
Collecting information around product |
Evaluating Potentials and Costs of Our Product |
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Raising awareness |
Different activities for all ages to arouse the awareness of cancer & early cancer detection and to publize our project to the world. |
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PART I
COLLABORATIONS WITH HOSPITAL & HEALTH CENTER
Interviews with Doctors
1.Dr.Li Wenjin, Hematology Department, First Xiangya Affiliated Hospital of CSU
We talked to Dr.Li on issue about procedure of current cancer detection, gaps Between clinical application and basic research, doubted stability of miRNA in blood, efficiency of miRNA detection and expected prospect of miRNA. This helped us have a detailed understanding of current miRNA application in clinical use, from this we started to increase our attention to the testing validness and long-term effections of our project.
2.Dr.Hou Tao, Oncology Department，Second Xiangya Affiliated Hospital of CSU
In interviews with Dr.Hou, we mainly discussed on costs of current early cancer detection methods. During this we found that the costs of current early cancer detection methods were to some extent too high for people especially the poor to afford. And this methods needed big instruments to analysis samples. It is hard for small hospitals in remote areas to utilize such instruments, thus the remote people may not have the chance to take early cancer detection unless they go to big cities, which may bring pessimism to their thoughts to take the early cancer detection. This acted as an alert of what direction we should go.
We also talked with Dr.Hou about disadvantages of current early detection methods to get help to determine our final project scheme.
