Incredible!Mexican doctor converts DNA into personalized artistic paintings
El médico mexicano Juan Roldán, afincado en la ciudad de Girona, España, desde 2008, creó la firma Genoma23 para comercializar cuadros personalizados hechos con el ADN de la persona que encarga la obra artística, plasmada con la información genética.
The idea, pioneer in Spain, was developed by doctor and researcher Juan Roldán from a mathematical algorithm that translates genetic information into unique strokes and colors to create a digital image.
From a saliva sample, an invasive procedure, the isolate and sequence laboratory small fragments of 23 genes, which are small segments that make up the DNA and that contain specific information that define physical features and make each single person.
Each body cell is calculated that contains between 25 thousand and 30 thousand genes, and the 23 that the Roldán project uses are the same as analyzed, for example, when paternity or medical-formal tests are made.
El ADN está formado por cuatro bases químicas: la adenina, la timina, la guanina y la citosina, que se unen entre sí y forman pares de bases que conectan las dos cadenas del ADN, formando una doble hélice.
El material genético humano tiene más de 3 mil millones de estas letras y su combinación define el ADN, que es diferente en cada persona, incluidos los gemelos idénticos, lo que asegura que ninguno de los cuadros del proyecto Genoma23 sea similar a otro.
Las secuencias de ADN obtenidas en el laboratorio a partir de la muestra de saliva, se introducen en un algoritmo basado en modelos matemáticos, que desarrolló Roldán en colaboración con el departamento de Matemáticas Aplicadas de la Universidad de Girona, y así obtiene la imagen digital única.
Roldán, who was born in Mexico in 1970, was the principal investigator of different projects in two hospitals in Catalonia, after investigating several years molecular models of respiratory diseases in the United States, where he aroused his concern for DNA as a form of artistic expression.
The Roldán project, however, is not the first to unite the science of DNA with art, since the research of genetic material for years has had a wide impact on various fields, such as sculpture or architecture.
The "Bioarte", the name that this artistic current has received, is based on the application of science tools and techniques to create artistic works, that is, the Union of Art, Science and Life through technology.
The artists of this movement use plants, skin, insects, genes, bacteria, fungi, fabric crops, animal blood transfusions, DNA and even their own body, and all kinds of organic elements to create their works of art.
As can be seen from the website of the Roldán firm, getting the picture through this process costs between 760 and 510 euros.
Depending on the model and size, the work is printed on an ecological support and is sent in a wrap made of sustainable forests.
The firm also guarantees the protection of user data, so it does not use names or surnames in the laboratory samples, and once the picture is obtained, this is destroyed through a process that claim that it is safe.
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