Tag: Blood
Synthetic Blood Trials in the UK
NHS to give volunteers 'synthetic blood' made in laboratory within two years. Click on image to go to a link to an Independent Article
Reworking Blood on Silk; Price taker, price maker
Having a difficult but interesting time reworking my work from Cementa_15 where it was located in a site where the intention was very obviously to consider buying and selling anything. The new site is a white cube gallery space where the importance of the economic transactions tend to be hidden with not everything on show as in the first site or [...]
Fresh whole blood for pediatric heart surgery ‘may reduce risk of transfusion-related illnesses’
Interesting article in Medical News Today on the benefits in paediatric procedures of using fresh whole blood from a single donor
Another way light provides the answer for blood testing
Light replaces the Needle. 'Empa and the University Hospital Zurich have joined forces to develop a sensor that gages the blood sugar through skin contact. And best of all: No blood samples are necessary, not even to calibrate the sensor. “Glucolight” is initially to be used in premature babies to avoid hypoglycemia and subsequent brain [...]
Blood on Silk: Wrap up of exhibitions in 2014
Blood Testing – New Thinking Commercially Applied
photo credit Matthew Scott http://www.wired.com/2014/02/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/
Blood on Silk: Tufts Analytical Lab, 2014, silk paper and found objects, size variable. As installed for two and a half days in the analytical lab in the Biomedical Silk Lab at Tufts University Boston USA in late October 2014
This was not a public exhibition - it could only be seen by those who worked in this particular set of scientific laboratories within the silk laboratory at Tufts University Boston where they '.. study the use of silk as an optical material for applications in biomedical engineering, photonics and nanophotonics' This installation intervened into [...]
Blood on Silk: Surgery – artist interview
http://youtu.be/iYKoBuZoJ7w Blood on Silk: Surgery as installed in the foyer of the main science building Macquarie University, Sydney Australia
Video of the installation Blood on Silk: Trade conflated with Blood on Silk: Campbelltown as installed at Campbelltown Arts Centre 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvCc7DLSY2oStill Photo Credits Alex Gooding, Martin Lukersmith, Zan Wimberley, Alex WisserVideo Credits Fiona Davies, Alex Gooding
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