Word: mutant
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...Above all, the show attempts to free up the frozen image, capturing the shift in contemporary art from photography to video and back again. Exhibit A is Patricia Piccinini, mistress of the morph. For her wondrous meditations on genetic engineering, it's only natural that she has spawned a mutant medium. Here Piccinini is represented by her Venice Biennale video, Plasmid Region, 2003, which shows a magnified plasmid cell slowly reproducing. How to love her offspring, including her often photographed "siren mole," is a question her deeply disturbing work raises...
...hospital, had alerted Urbani and told him the Chinese-American patient currently in the emergency ward suffering from high fever, severe muscular pains and labored breathing had possibly come down with the disease. Virologists in Hong Kong soon determined that the agent was a novel coronavirus, not a mutant flu. But Urbani, who would die of SARS on March 29, went to his grave suspecting the world was on the verge of another influenza pandemic...
Thundat has also shown that his sensor can detect proteins associated with prostate cancer. He and his team are now building arrays to detect markers for other cancers, heart disease and even mutant genes. In his spare time, Thundat is trying to figure out how to make his sensors more robust and discerning than they are, hoping to deploy them as cheap detectors of land mines, which cripple and kill thousands of people every year in war-ravaged nations like Angola. "We have a long way to go," he acknowledges. "Right now my friends tell me they wouldn't walk...
Dowling says he has a particular interest in working with behaviorally mutant zebrafish...
...vivid demonstration, Dowling attaches GFP protein to the promoter regions of photoreceptor genes, so that a highly fluorescent protein is produced. This serves as a marker for how the rod cells develop and, as Dowling notes, “it enables us to find mutants who have specific defects in the development of photoreceptor cells.” This marker helps to mutant behavior to specific structural defects...