I’ve never gotten to do EM. I’ve done a little immunofluorescence in my time, but nothing worthy of framing. The place I work annually hosts a traveling exhibit of Nikon’s Small World competition.

http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/

Once years ago I took a whole bunch of sequencing gels and made them into a sculpture of a bird held together with bits of scotch tape. I should revisit that idea. I want to make a large bird wing this time because that was the part that I liked best of my bird – the different transparencies of layers of the x-ray film were neat.

My other pet project idea is to do a dilution series of various stains in some tiny sample bottles and use them as a kind of stained glass cover for one of my windows. I’m just not sure how to seal them effectively.

The only real problem with blots though is that they are inherently blurry. I prefer my micrographs for art. I’m working on getting the electron micrographs I did over the summer blown up for display. Talk about original black and white photos.

Western blots are actually all about protein and the gels that these guys do are all about DNA. I’m actually running a Western right now and about to run a DNA gel as soon as I stop procrastinating by looking at shelterrific!

If you want images that look similar to this company’s, you might use the search term “sequencing gel.”

I framed a series of agarose gels of various bits of cloned DNA for a friend of mine. Science makes wonderful art.

I was also thinking what if you just swabbed your pet’s cheek?