Word: plasmids
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...CULTURE Virus is purified and chemically killed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Virus is grown in fertilized chicken eggs --> Vaccine NEW METHOD: HUMAN-CELL CULTURE Virus is killed and processed to produce the vaccine Virus --> Cell --> Virus is grown in human-cell culture --> Vaccine GENETIC METHOD: DNA VACCINES Plasmid is manufactured, purified and painted onto gold particles Virus --> Viral RNA --> Microscopic gold particles --> Gene gun shoots particles into the skin
...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...
...resurrected diseases previously thought to have been eradicated or at least controlled, this is an alarming prospect. Imagine one of those bacteria in your gut happens to be strep or staph or tuberculosis—something nasty, but controllable with standard antibiotics. Now imagine that they pick up a plasmid from a genetically modified piece of corn. What happens? The antibiotics don’t work any more. At this point it might be worth buying some life insurance and making sure your will is in order...