Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Painting with luminous Bacteria

An interesting curiosity found the painting with the intention of was created with different types of fluorescent bacteria. Nathan Shaner’s rendition of a San Diego beach scene was made using a kind of living paint collected of eight color palette of bacterial colonies expressing fluorescent proteins derived from GFP and the red-fluorescent coral protein dsRed. The insignia include BFP, mTFP1, Emerald, Citrine, mOrange, mApple, mCherry and mGrape.

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