A professor at Tel Aviv University is studying bacteria to move the world of science forward, but he's creating some breathtaking art as well. As FastCo.Design explains, Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob decided to study the adaptive behavior of wild bacteria strains some 20 years ago. The idea was to put bacteria in challenging environments, and see how a colony would respond. Watching the colony adapt in a collaborative fashion led to a number of different discoveries, including that different kinds of bacteria — or phenotypes — exist within a given colony to perform specific tasks, much like humans and animals have cells with specific functions.
The beauty comes into play when Ben-Jacob takes these adaptive bacteria colonies, dyes them...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/27/4664262/adaptive-bacteria-makes-psychedelic-art-worthy-of-the-grateful-dead
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