diff --git a/wiki/pages/human-practices.html b/wiki/pages/human-practices.html index 9727fed2bb34820becad2fb54511587889dc984d..1cf13004c6c4ea20b49a714852b6359173803d90 100644 --- a/wiki/pages/human-practices.html +++ b/wiki/pages/human-practices.html @@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ </head> <body> - <h2>What values—environmental, social, moral, scientific, or other—did you have in mind when designing your project?</h2> + <h2>Note</h2> + <p>Best integrated Human Practices Award is at the end</p> + + <h2 style="margin-top: 10vh;">What values—environmental, social, moral, scientific, or other—did you have in mind when designing your project?</h2> <p>In just the past year, a farmer from Michigan came out with an interesting story. Jason Grostic’s family had been running the farm for nearly a 100 years, but when the local government decided to perform a biosolids test, all of it changed. A nearby waste management facility was dumping biosolids and chemicals into the watershed — the same watershed that supplied Grostic’s farm. When the test results came back, he found out that PFAS chemicals were present in his water, his ground, his feed, and his cattle. Consequently, his farm was shut down. Grostic and other farmers around the US are facing increasing issues with PFAS and its prevalence in our water systems. The presence of PFAS has disrupted agriculture in many states and forced farms to shut down due to contaminated yield.</p> <p>If this wasn’t bad enough, PFAS is now causing impacts to human health directly. According to a recent CDC report using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), around 97 percent of Americans have detectable amounts of PFAS in their blood. This compounds with the multitude of hazards PFAS can pose to humans. Recent studies show potential links to cancer (specifically liver and skin), liver damage, increased susceptibility to non fatty liver disease, a compromised immune system, and more. With the ambiguity surrounding the complete impacts of PFAS, more research is needed in the field. With our project aiming to detect PFAS in the water supplies, there is a chance to help the agricultural industry, as well as the general public and local lawmakers with decisions surrounding PFAS. Which resources or communities did you consult to ensure those are appropriate values in the context of your project?</p> @@ -94,5 +97,18 @@ <a href="https://static.igem.wiki/teams/5029/wiki/pdf/banhrida-wahlang-transcript.pdf"> <button>Transcript of Interview</button> </a> + + <h1>Best Integrated Human Practices</h1> + <p>Note: All experiments, data, and results for these modelling methods can be found throughout the website.</p> + + <p style="margin-top: 5vh;">Our project affects society by ensuring people of their safety and satisfaction for their needs, namely water. The project’s goal is to detect one of the most ubiquitous and dangerous environmental pollutants, the synthetic chemicals known as PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). Exposure to PFAS can lead to altered immune and thyroid function, liver disease, lipid and insulin dysregulation, kidney disease, adverse reproductive and developmental outcomes, and most importantly, cancer. </p> + + <p style="margin-top: 5vh;">Our project aims to benefit our community by providing safer water, making our neighbors feel less threatened by serious health effects that may result from water toxicity. As we continue to develop our project, we would like to explore the dangers of other man-made chemicals like PFAS and provide solutions such as the one we developed for this year’s competition. </p> + + <p style="margin-top: 5vh;">Ethical considerations and stakeholder input guide have influenced our project’s goals, design, and lab experiment as they showed us beneficial alternatives to our ideas, decisions, and experimentation. Throughout the development of our project, we grew and built connections that would in turn make our project not just as successful as can be, but also unique, and with a story. One of our most notable conversations was with Dr. Banrida Wahlang, a toxicologist from the University of Louisville, where we went into depth about other synthetic chemicals contributing to the growing concern of water toxicity. This interview allowed for our team’s ambition to grow into a will to break the barriers of not just PFAS, but other man-made chemicals and water toxicity as a whole.</p> + + + + </body> {% endblock %}