Budding

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 second NFT "Silicon-Carbon based life: Budding" I imagined asexual reproduction through budding where, by mitosis, the mother organism divides into 2 identical child organisms. 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...View all