Photograph showing clean and unused laboratory material orderly arranged in four rows on a wooden surface. The material includes items commonly used in biological laboratories. From left to right, top to bottom: two stacks of lidded, transparent plastic Petri dishes, a capped glass bottle, snap-cap Eppendorf tubes, laboratory gloves, a green empty plastic rack for Eppendorf tubes, a micropipette, a laboratory manual entitled 'DIY CRISPR Genome Engineering', five plastic eyelet probes, a rack loaded with yellow micropipette tips, one large and two medium centrifuge tubes, five labeled and capped small tubes, a spatula, six closed snap-cap tubes and two stacks of lidded Petri dishes. In the third row of the object display, a sticker reads “Genetic engineering, ODIN, http://the-odin.com”.

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DIY Bacterial Gene Engineering CRISPR Kit, 2015-ongoing

It was designed by Josiah Zayner and manufactured by Open Discovery Institute (The Odin). It is dated 2015-ongoing. Its medium is crispr kit, information graphic. It is a part of the department.

Gene engineering is the modification of an organism’s characteristics by manipulating its DNA. The DIY CRISPR Kit enables users to conduct up to 5 gene engineering experiments aimed at modifying Escherichia coli DNA using the CRISPR-Cas9 system, which is briefly explained in the graphic to the left. CRISPR-Cas9 enables scientists to alter the DNA of almost any organism with incredible precision, potentially ending disease and hunger. The kit is intended as an educational tool to improve DNA literacy, expanding the number of people equipped to conduct personalized experiments. While the therapeutic results of CRISPR-Cas9 are promising, the possibilities for unintended consequences are vast.

It is credited Courtesy of The Odin.

Tree of 40 Fruit
bare root tree, rendering, drawing, tree of 40 fruit.
Courtesy of Sam Van Aken and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
NATURE.052

Box In The Shape Of An Egg
worked tortoiseshell inlaid with gold.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1967-48-33

A zoomed in piece of folded silk fabric with a pale yellow background accented with bright pink splatters. Overlaying this pattern are double black lines that coninuously intersect each other in the feeling of a road map. The pink splatters and black intersecting lines become more dense toward the right side of the fabric creating a more chaotic feeling. Because of the folds in the fabric, certain areas appear out of focus.

BioMess, 2019
specimins, hybridoma cells, display cases.
Courtesy of The Tissue Culture and Art Project.
NATURE.051

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Nature—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/4wUs7X/
Accession Number NATURE.050
Object ID 2318798875