Biotech and art are two subjects that compliment each other and have the potential to evolve to become something revolutionary. With the advancement in technology cloning and other methods of biotech are becoming more accurate and successful.
At some point in the 17th century, the British scientist Robert Hooke peered into his microscope and discovered that the sliver of cork he was examining was not a solid block of material but a honeycomb of hundreds of thousands of cells. This discovery led to revolutions in biological science. In just the last 60 years, the architecture of DNA has been decoded, in-vitro babies have been born, and sheep have been cloned.
Edoardo Kac is responsible for creating a mutant bunny using the art of biotech. A mutant glow-in-the-dark rabbit is at the centre of war between an artist who claims he dreamed her up and the French scientists who created her. Alba was born in February at the National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) in Paris. Edouardo Kac planned to display Alba in Avignon, and then take her to live with his family in Chicago. He intended his green fluorescent bunny project to capture the theme of biotechnology and its relation to family life and public debate.
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