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Click to view The problem with bio-art is that it's often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That's what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called "Design and the Elastic Mind," where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container. More »
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This gorgeous, strange image is a highly-accurate visualization of what's happening inside your body right now. Macrophages, specialized cells that help keep your body in good repair by cleaning up debris, zoom around your capillaries, among other places. In this image, we've left the macrophages behind and are inside a cell watching proteins walk around on tethers to carry proteins or other materials elsewhere in the cell. This is actually a still from an amazing flick called "Inner Life of the Cell," made for biology students, and currently on display at a new show in New York called Design and the Elastic Mind. Want to see more weird biology art? More »
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