In 2009, the Osaka iGEM team developed a set of "bio-art" tools. They created colour palettes and a signalling system between bacterial cells that produced some pretty awesome artwork when plated on soft agar.
There was a wide array of colours produced, ranging from red, green, cyan, yellow, and orange fluorescent proteins, as well as red, orange, yellow, black, brown, and purple pigments. With this, they created flower-patterned petri dishes, glowing cocktail glasses, and even an 8-bit Mario replica!
Here are some of the many art pieces the team has created.
This just goes to show that with enough creativity, the sky really is the limit for synthetic biology. Who knows? Maybe in the future we'll be using bacteria as an art medium.
Patrick
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Whao that is super exciting. We should totally create that! I'm interested.
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