These striking images of crystalline geometric shapes and splashes of color look as though they could be extreme cheeseparing - ups of workaday objects or modern - day artistic production pieces from an nonfigurative expressionist . But they all really show the DNA sequences of patients with autism .
In an unusual collaboration betweenresearch organization Autism Speaksand New York advertising agencyBBDO NY , they take aim to create a digital library database of 10,000 DNA samples of autistic patient . As the universe ’s largest catalogue of sequenced genomes , this information could be get at at any time from Google Cloud by doctors around the world .
Image Credit : Linden Gledhill /MSSNG
backing for this labor – termed theMSSNG Project – will descend from sale of these beautiful pictures .
So how were these noteworthy images get ? Grab your microscope adequate to of 1000x blowup with an attached polarized light source system . fix the desoxyribonucleic acid in a high - immersion water - based solution and place the DNA sampling on a glass slide . Wait for the water supply in the deoxyribonucleic acid solution to completely evaporate and crystalise .
This simple process , as show by biochemist and photographer Linden Gledhill at an single one - night - only gallery exhibition in New York , result in the DNA crystal interfering with light , and the trippy colors and form as consider in these images .
Two thousand unique DNA sampling have already been crystallized and snapped for the MSSNG Project . Some of the DNA genome sequences will also beturned into musicfor an aural experience .
You could have the innermost characteristic of an anon. person with autism displayed in mellow technicolor for all to see in your kitchen . Or while traveling to puzzle out , you could be listen to the very quality that differentiate one person from another .
" MSSNG has the potential to change the future for billion of multitude with autism , " suppose Liz Feld , president of Autism Speaks , say in apress handout , " and this case is designed to heighten its cognizance . "
While a definite 10,000 desoxyribonucleic acid samples will be sequence for the MSSNG Project , Chief Science Officer of Autism SpeaksRobert Ringdoesn’t need to just stop there . “ We are n’t break at 10,000 . MSSNG has been built to care hundreds of thousands of genomes , and expect it to become the home for the entire field ’s sequencing data . "
Extensive research could be more rigorously conducted with the conception of the MSSNG Project , unlock the potentiality for greater understanding and exploration of autism .
