Almost life

[lunakilo]

A while back I remember somone posting some youtube clips of 'almost life' generated in the lab.

It was some cute colored blops that behaved much like single celled organisms.

I wanted to show them to a friend, but no I have no idea where to look for them.
Can any of you help me find them?

[painted wolf]

I think this is one of the videos

Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life | Video on TED.com

It was a thread I posted on artificial and non organic life experiments.

wa:do

[apophenia]

Have either of you heard of Victimless Leather ?

Some Australian artists do work using leading edge medical science, and create some strange organic work with stem cells and synthetic skin and whatever they discover in the labs which give them access.

One of the living leather jackets was euthanased after it started developing deformities.

Google Victimless Leather and you'll see lots of interesting articles.

[shawn001]

Originally Posted by apophenia

Have either of you heard of Victimless Leather ?

Some Australian artists do work using leading edge medical science, and create some strange organic work with stem cells and synthetic skin and whatever they discover in the labs which give them access.

One of the living leather jackets was euthanased after it started developing deformities.

Google Victimless Leather and you'll see lots of interesting articles.

apophenia, Thanks I had never heard of it.

"The Museum of Modern Art in New York has had to kill one of the works currently on display in its recent Design and the Elastic mind show. Literally. The piece is called Victimless Leather. It's an incubator built from a series of flasks which provides nutrients to feed a miniature living coat. The tiny coat was comprised of a biodegradable polymer matrix in the shape of a doll's jacket covered in a layer of living tissue made up of mouse stem cells. When the cells began growing to quickly, the curators of the show had to cut off the nutrients—effectively killing the cells. The artists couldn't be happier.
The idea, of course, was to question our understanding of what is alive and what our responsibility is "towards the living systems that we engage in manipulating," says one of the artists, Oron Catts."

Victimless Leather? | Popular Science


That's a creepy picture actually.

They have also been working on combining spider silk and human skin cells to create a type of bullet proof skin.

Bulletproof Skin Made From Spider Silk : Discovery News

[Shadow Wolf]

Google Victimless Leather and you'll see lots of interesting articles.

Thanks for the information. That is absolutely fascinating.

[lunakilo]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

I think this is one of the videos

Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life | Video on TED.com

It was a thread I posted on artificial and non organic life experiments.

wa:do

That was it exactly. Thank you

[painted wolf]

Originally Posted by lunakilo

That was it exactly. Thank you

Glad to help!

wa:do