Minor nitpick: it’s cell culture rather than tissue culture, but the joke still stands.
(Found on Twitter through Glendon Mellow )
Tissue Culture
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Chromosome
DNA!
(Made this ages ago, but never got around to uploading a picture)
The DNA strand is one continuous thing. One end goes into the chromosome. Can you find the other end?
Slice and Dice
Two medical art related things:
Slice
I’m in Gerstein Library at the moment, and one of Gunter Von Hagen’s Bodyworlds pieces is on display in the lobby , to advertise that there are many more of them at the Ontario Science Centre. I saw his last exhibit there when Shelley came to visit a few years ago and don’t really feel the need to brave the crowds again, but seeing a sliced up man for free at the library where I was working anyway is pretty cool.
Slicy in the library lobby. He’s officially called “6 Meter Man” but I’ve named him “Slicy” instead. (Photo from UofT )
Dice
I still need to watch the episode, but I’m already excited about it. My friend Brett is an illustrator/cartoonist, and he has been selling some stock images lately that have popped up here and there. Most recently, a cartoon he did of a sick guy was used to make a box for a fictional board game shown on my favourite current comedy show, How I Met Your Mother. Yay! In terms of medical art it’s a bit of a stretch, I know, but look how fun this looks:
Diseases! I so want to play this game!
enter3
On the off chance that you’re going to be in Prague this weekend, make sure you don’t miss enter3 , the third international festival for arts, sciences, and technologies.
In particular, you’d want to visit the performances and installations at various locations in the city.
My picks:
Proteic portrait by Marta de Menezes.
Marta spelled out her entire name in one letter amino acid codes, and engineered the corresponding peptide.
Pigeon Blog by Beatriz da Costa
“ PigeonBlog enlists homing pigeons to participate in a grassroots scientific data gathering initiative designed to collect and distribute information about air quality conditions to the general public.”
Streptomyces by Linda ?iha?ová
Linda subjects photographs of a bioinformatics lab to the same algorithms as the lab’s researchers use on their data.
Dangerous Liaisons
This documentary screens three times at enter3 this weekend. It follows a Transgenic Pheasant Embryology Art and Science Lab as part of an honours biological arts course in Leiden.
I wish I could be in Prague this weekend to see all this!