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From the artist's webpage: "Prototype of a do-it-yourself learning and fabrication machine that can visualize the different stages of a bacterial transformation, incubation and protein synthesis."
Description from the artist's website: "The ‘Algaerium Bioprinter’ envisions how microalgal cells can be grown and digitally printed for production of ‘fresh’ food supplements, organic dyes on paper, and printable biological solar batteries."
Visualization of sugar-preference of E. coli is achieved by centering bacteria in a petri dish, around the edges five varieties of sugar are plated; movement of bacteria toward the preferred sugar source can be detected