Gallery: Hungry? Try Some Cheese Made of Michael Pollan's Belly-Button Germs

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    Sissel Tolaas & Christina Agapakis examine cheese. Selfmade is part of GROW YOUR OWN at Science Gallery sciencegallery.com

    *Selfmade* is a project by Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas that cultures human skin samples into cheese. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    cheese-'Michael' - Selfmade as part of GROW YOUR OWN at Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. sciencegallery.com 2

    This farmhouse cheese was made from a sample of the inside of food writer Michael Pollan's belly button. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    cheese-'Seana' - Selfmade as part of GROW YOUR OWN at Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. sciencegallery.com 1

    Another cheese made from microbes inside cheesemaker Seana Doughty's mouth. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    cheese-'Christina' - Selfmade as part of GROW YOUR OWN at Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin. sciencegallery.com 1

    *Selfmade* is part of a bigger exhibition called *Grow Your Own...Life After Nature*, which looks at the impact of synthetic biology on design. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    grow-E.Chromi by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg & James King as part of GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery, Dublin.

    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's *E. Chromi* genetically engineering bacteria to secrete a variety of colored pigments. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    grow-Circumventive Organs by Agatha Haines as part of GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery, Dublin.

    Agatha Haines' *Circumventive Organs* looks at what might happen if you could crossbreed animal and human organs. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    grow-I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin... by Ai Hasegawa as part of GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery. Photo by Freddie Stevens

    Ai Hasegawa's *I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin...* is a project about about growing your own food in your uterus with the help of synthetic biology technology. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    grow-The Great Work of the Metal Lover by Adam W. Brown as part of GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery, Dublin.

    Adam W. Brown's *The Great Work of the Metal Lover* is a live biochemical installation where a colony of anaerobic microbes are grown in a synthetic biological system. *Image: Science Gallery*
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    grow-The Mechanism of Life as part of GROW YOUR OWN... at Science Gallery. sciencegallery.com 1

    The Mechanism of Life, After Stéphane Leduc is a custom-made, rapid prototyping printer that creates ‘protocells.’ *Image: Science Gallery*
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