Lecture “Genomic Gastronomy: Food Systems, Security & Policy†at CSTEP (Center for Study of Science Technology and Policy) in Bangalore.
Lecture at CSTEP in Bangalore, India from genomic gastronomy on Vimeo.
This talk gave a broad overview of international issues and policies … Read more ›
The Distribution of Intellectual Property Claims on the Human Genome. Source Data: Jensen and Murray (2005) Intellectual Property Landscape of the Human Genome. Science 310:239.
Click on the image for a Processing animation of patent locations.
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A Model of Mitochondria in the Cell
The word mitochondrion comes from the Greek μίτος or mitos, meaning thread and χονδÏίον or chondrion, meaning granule (thanks! wikipedia). But this isn’t about the mitochondrion itself. Rather, this is a story about … Read more ›
scanner ants
The CEMA homepage is showing an image of scanner that has opportunistically been colonized by ants (anyone know which species?). I was present at the offending attack, and I have this to say. I didn’t see it … Read more ›
I was up this morning thinking about the kinds of spaces, communities and interactions I would like to see. Somewhere between physical computing, synthetic biology, evolutionary ecology, and design is a space where species can speak and be recognized by … Read more ›
Regine Debatty discusses biology, art, and technology
Yeast Cell Cycle
Here is a new visualization of the cell cycle using a combination of Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML), Flash, and database-driven graphics. This new version from Chris Landau and Jamie Cope’s nformation design demonstrates the yeast cell … Read more ›
IN THE NATURE OF THE EXPERIMENT from srishti on Vimeo.
This is a short video about the Center for Experimental Media Arts, the lab where I work.
Communicating with plants, environmental sensing, crowd-sourced science, ecosystem monitoring, when species meet…
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tiara or crown of thorns?
This afternoon we concluded a week-long workshop in the so-called bioarts (go here for a nuanced discussion of the term) at the National Center for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore, India. The workshop, conducted by … Read more ›
Design and the Elastic Mind is a new show that has opened up at the MOMA that I would very much like to see. It would be great to hear any responses from readers that had the chance to … Read more ›
