JDoe: Alzheimer's portraits series

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posted on 2025-05-09, 06:30 authored by Andre Brodyk

These paintings were made with a new transgenic organism as the medium - a strain of E. coli bacteria that Brodyk himself created by mixing genes for a glowing molecule from jellyfish (green fluorescent protein) along with human genes connected to Alzheimer's disease.

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Start date

2011-04-04

End date

2011-12-05

Publisher

City University of New York Graduate Center

Place published

New York

Language

en, English

College/Research Centre

Faculty of Education and Arts

School

School of Creative Industries

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Keywords

DNA genetic art E. coli bacteria Alzheimer's disease green fluorescent protein

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