L’art i la Ciència no cal que vagin separats. En un altre exemple que s’uneix als que he anat recollint en aquest blog, he llegit a The Scientist que al Museu d’Art Metropolità de Nova York (MoMA) hi ha actualment una exposició titulada Design and the Elastic Mind.
Entre d’altres coses, hi ha una Cartografia Genòmica, un Graf d’Homologia de Proteïnes, o fins i tot un Origami de DNA. En aquest cas, “DNA Origami features smiley faces that are barely 100 nanometers wide. Rothemund, a computer scientist at the California Institute of Technology, exploits the self-assembling properties of DNA molecules to bend and fold the 7000-bp genomes of M13 viruses using short DNA strands as “staples” to create familiar two-dimensional shapes. In addition to the iconic smiley face — 50 billion of which could float in a single drop of water — Rothemund creates words, snowflake-like lattices, and even a map of the Americas, all of which he then laser-etches on to glass slides.”
Val la pena doncs llegir aquest article de The Scientist.