Inside skin was a collaboration between muz and many artists to try and find new ways to communicate her research. This effort culminated in an event called inside skin, where artists transformed mos's work on the gene expression of a mean cells in the skin into interactive exhibits. We had a bot which had like sound, an eludi visual play and the light display. And the sound was essentially transformation of the gen expression data. So the intensity of the gens that were expressed were transformed into this.
Researchers sequence the oldest DNA ever recovered, and the people bringing art and science together.
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00:46 Million-year-old mammoth DNA
This week, researchers have smashed a long-standing record by sequencing a genome that's over a million years old. They achieved this feat by extracting DNA from permafrost-preserved mammoth teeth, using it to build-up a more detailed family tree for these ancient animals.
12:18 Putting art into science (and science into art)
Art and science are sometimes considered disparate, but when brought together the results can be greater than the sum of their parts. This week we hear from an artist and a scientist on the benefits they found when crossing the divide.
We discuss some highlights from the Nature Briefing. This time, a neanderthal gene makes brain-like organoids bumpy, and uncovering the original location of Stonehenge’s stone circle.