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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuman Cheese, anyone?
Fascinating new exhibition created by Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin as part of the Grow Your Own: Life After Nature https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/growyourown/ series on synthetic biology.
https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/growyourown/selfmade
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Bacteria from personalities including artist Olafur Eliasson, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and chef Michael Pollan have been used to make human cheese as part of an exhibition about synthetic biology in Dublin. American scientist Christina Agapakis and Norwegian scent expert Sissel Tolaas collected bacteria from Obrist's nose, Eliasson's tears and Pollan's belly button and used them to make the artisanal dairy products.
"We are presenting a set of cheeses made using bacteria from the human body," Agapakis told Dezeen. "Everybody has a unique and diverse set of bacteria living on their skin that can be amplified using techniques from microbiology and grown directly in milk to form and flavour each cheese."
The project, called Selfmade, features eleven cheeses in total, made from bacterial cultures harvested from the skin of artists, scientists, anthropologists, and cheese makers using sterile cotton swabs that were sent to the donors.
The cheeses each smell, and taste, of the body odour of the donor, Agapakis said.
"It's no surprise that sometimes cheese odours and body odours are similar," she explained. "But when we started working together we were surprised by how not only do cheese and smelly body parts like feet share similar odour molecules but also have similar microbial populations."
"We are presenting a set of cheeses made using bacteria from the human body," Agapakis told Dezeen. "Everybody has a unique and diverse set of bacteria living on their skin that can be amplified using techniques from microbiology and grown directly in milk to form and flavour each cheese."
The project, called Selfmade, features eleven cheeses in total, made from bacterial cultures harvested from the skin of artists, scientists, anthropologists, and cheese makers using sterile cotton swabs that were sent to the donors.
The cheeses each smell, and taste, of the body odour of the donor, Agapakis said.
"It's no surprise that sometimes cheese odours and body odours are similar," she explained. "But when we started working together we were surprised by how not only do cheese and smelly body parts like feet share similar odour molecules but also have similar microbial populations."
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/20/olafur-eliasson-tears-used-to-make-human-cheese/
Cheese made of microbes from cheesemaker Seana Doughty's mouth.
Cheese made from microbiologist Ben Wolfe's toe microbes
more cheese at link
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Human Cheese, anyone? (Original Post)
superpatriotman
Nov 2013
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MineralMan
(146,284 posts)1. OK, that's way too gross for even DU's GD.
In my opinion, anyhow.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)2. That's just ewwwww.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)3. I'm not ready for this news.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)4. Put a GRAPHIC warning on this.....bleech....nt
LuvNewcastle
(16,843 posts)5. Aww,shit. Now the Kardashians are going to be selling their own cheese.
Faux pas
(14,657 posts)6. LOL
I've heard of toe jam before, but not toe cheese. Now I've made myself even more gaggy.
mockmonkey
(2,815 posts)7. A full menu
People who eat their new born's placenta and for dessert ice cream made from mothers milk.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,173 posts)8. That'll teach everyone to carefully read the labels from now on.
Next on the agenda: ToeFu.
Beacool
(30,247 posts)9. No, nope, hell to the no.
dionysus
(26,467 posts)18. cover your eyes Bea.. cheese should only come from these;
DinahMoeHum
(21,783 posts)10. (puke)
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)11. vrumunda cheese anyone?
Buns_of_Fire
(17,173 posts)13. Had to go and make me look up "vrumunda," didn't you?
And here I am all out of Clorox to gargle with.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)24. so sorry, but not really
who knew I even was able to spell it, sort of. I never knew it was fromunda
Aerows
(39,961 posts)12. Okay, I love cheese
but the maggot cheese and *this* entire obscenity must never, ever ...
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)14. Whoever thought lactose intolerance could be a benefit?
FatBuddy
(376 posts)15. fromage du derriere, n'est-ce pas?
sakabatou
(42,146 posts)16. I have one thing to say...
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)17. This is nauseating.
MattBaggins
(7,901 posts)19. So I really can make FromUnder cheese
Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)20. Here's some Scott Walker velveeta
Cirque du So-What
(25,922 posts)21. I suggest avoiding the Camembert made from nostril microbes
It's a bit runny.
LuvNewcastle
(16,843 posts)22. Can't wait for the smegma Limburger/ hogshead cheese subs.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)23. .