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Morten, Jeppe og undertegnede tog for noget tid siden forbi Den Frie Udstillingsbygning (lige ved Østerport st.) for at besøge udstillingen AUTOPSI – mere end 500 anskuelsestavler. Undertitlen på udstillingen er i høj grad rammende. Væggene i udstillingensbygningen var dækkede med anskuelsestavler som de kendes fra tidligere tiders klasselokaler (bruges de i det hele taget stadigvæk?). Tavlerne var organiseret så de […]

When I was a student, announcement boards — with flyers for conferences, graduate courses, seminars, new books etc. — were centrepieces in the hallways of Academia. In many departments they still are. Like this well-groomed one in the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Leeds (where I visited to give two talks last May). But […]

Last week, Computerworld carried an interview with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that in 30 or 40 years from now nanomachines will travel through our bodies, repairing damaged cells and organs, effectively wiping out diseases: The full realization of nanobots will basically eliminate biological disease and aging. I think we’ll see widespread use in 20 years […]

Som fortsættelse på et tidligere blogindlæg, som Bente havde svaret på, kommer her en uddybning: I Science artiklen står der: ”To test the rats’ propensity for risk, the researchers adopted a gambling task used by psychologists to study risk-taking in people. The animals learned that pressing one lever produced small but certain rewards in the […]

In continuation of last week’s post about protein art — here is a (somewhat dated) YouTube-movie about the making of such a beast: [biomed]LqsQYVFAgPo[/biomed] It’s an interview with German physicist-turned-artist Julian Voss-Andreae working on his antibody sculpture ‘Angel of the West’, now placed in front of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida. Voss-Andreae comments in […]

As some of you may have noticed, the online Image & Video Library of The American Society for Cell Biology has been closed since February, and nobody knew whether it would be opened again. Last Thursday the ACSB announced, however, that the site will be re-opened and developed further by means of a $2,5 million […]

Ever noticed that the uniform resource locator (a.k.a. url) of this blog is www.corporeality.net/museion? I’ve just realised there is a url-alike in the same business as ours, namely www.CORPOrealities.org. CORPOrealities is the website of a research project “situated on the very boundary of visual and performative arts and biomedicine”, which free-lance Viennese sociologist and artist Christina […]

Medicinsk Museion søger en publikumsmedarbejder med tiltrædelse snarest muligt (HK-stilling). Vi er et lille men dynamisk universitetsmuseum med i alt syv faste medarbejdere, der arbejder tæt sammen. Dine hovedopgaver vil være at sælge og organisere omvisninger og andre faglige arrangementer samt stå for en række administrative opgaver, herunder: bookning, fakturering og kasseansvar telefon- og personkontakt […]

The art of animation of cellular and molecular processes has developed immensely in the last decade. One of the interesting trends is the increasingly sophisticated practice of mixing scientific footage with animation procedures. A nice example is ‘The Golgi apparatus’ movie (Sougrat R. The Golgi apparatus. ASCB Image & Video Library. 2008;VID-142) that was awarded 1st Place Public Outreach Video […]

Don’t forget to see ‘Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination’, the major interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, when you are in town (45 mins from Stansted airport). The exhibition explores some of the different ways that bodies are imagined, understood and transformed in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. […]

In the last ten years or so, in the wake of the renewed interest in protein research and proteomics after genomics, we have seen more and more artists making protein sculptures. See, for example, Graphic Thought Facility’s neon protein artwork, or Colin Rennies glass sculpture of ATP synthase, or Julian Voss-Andreae’s wood and steel sculpures of proteins, just to mention a few. Here’s […]

For ganske nyligt så jeg et videopodcast om professor Hanne Johannesen der er leder af forskningsenheden for Helbred, Menneske og Samfund på Syddansk Universitet. Videopodcast er i sig selv en interessant måde at lave forskningsformidling på da de nærmest fungerer som små miniforelæsninger og giver en kort introduktion til et forskningsfelt. Til forskel fra en normal […]