Quick summary of bioethicsWhat is bioethics? It is the ethical discussion relevant to biological researches. How can we apply this in synthetic biology? This is a question without a definite answer. Therefore, we will present you a quick summary of the milestones in the history of bioethics in Synthetic Biology to get you started on the thoughts. | Data collection and sharingAs scientists start to value opinion from the public more and more, data collection and data sharing play important roles and are raising ethical questions for iGEMers. Here, we focus on the discussion related to human sample collection and online data sharing, which can include anything from answers to questionnaires to genetic information. | Informed consentI don’t know about you, but for a long time, informed consent was a term I never thought about incurring in my career as bioengineer. However, as I study more and more about synthetic biology, I realized it is almost the opposite. With the growth of crowdsourcing, comes the need and the rights for the public to know, which is the purpose of informed consent. |
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