michaelaDESMA9: Week 6 Assignment

Biotech And Art

In this week's topic, I found Eduardo Kac's GFP bunnies to be the most interesting feature. Just the fact alone that bunnies can be green is amazing to me. What Eduardo Kac does is put the GFP gene into a bunny named Alba which turned its color to green. Eduardo Kac is considered a bioartist and he specializes in genetically engineering organisms. Kac experienced some backlash some people concerned about the bunny's health, but Kac only had good intent in his experiments. I was a little surprised to see that he called the bunny a piece of art, but I think that anything living or dead can be considered a work of art.

I think another feature of biotech and art that can be talked about is stem cell research. There are tons of different companies that are actively trying to use stem cells to help fix some problems that people are having in their lives. Some things that stem cell research can help with is restore muscle cells after a heart attack, patients suffering from Alzheimer's, and even people whom have had a stroke. There is a big controversy in the stem cell research world because it often involved using another life to save another, which a lot of people do not think is ethical. But societal views aside, Stem cell research is a big biotech industry and it is getting more and more advanced every day.