First Breath

My “ Silicon-Carbon-based life” project consists of 4 NFTs of advanced graphic synthesis correlated and inspired by the research of genetics in xenon biology, with videos and music. In the first NFT "Silicon-Carbon based life: First Breath" I imagined the first breath of a synthetic organism, grown in a silicon bio-matrix gel. In 2016 a group of researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech: http://fhalab.caltech.edu/) coordinated by Frances H. Arnold (specialized in biocatalysis, protein engineering, evolutionary enzymatic and synthetic biology), managed to create carbon-silicon bonds in living cells, demonstrating, for the first time, that nature can incorporate si...View all