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Body Code (Drew Berry, 2003)
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Body Code is a selection of biomedical animations that explore the human body at the microscopic and molecular scale. Body Code was designed for museum and art gallery exhibition, with the goal of reaching public audiences who do not usually seek out or are exposed to the details of scientific knowledge. Since inception in 2003, these animations have exhibited in over 30 museums and art galleries around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art (USA), Museum of Design (Germany), Centre Pompidou (France), Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (China), Art Center Nabi (Korea) and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia).
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Immunology (Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry, 2007)
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'Fighting Infection by Clonal Selection' was created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Burnet's Clonal Selection Theory. The animation shows how clonal selection works during a bacterial infection of the throat.
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Diabetes Type 1 and Insulin Production (Etsuko Uno and Drew Berry, 2009)
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This animation illustrates how insulin is normally produced in the body and how its production is destroyed in type 1 diabetes. Approximately 25 million people worldwide, many of them children, suffer from this disease. There is currently no cure for diabetes and those affected with this disease must endure daily insulin injections for the duration of their lives.
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Malaria Lifecycle Part 1: Human Host (Drew Berry, 2008)
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The visualization reconstructs infection of a human child via mosquito bite, through invasion of cellular tissues including the liver and blood. All features are to scale, including mosquito, blood vessels, human cells and parasite. The visualization is the first of its kind to present live-behavior models, including the mosquito's bite technique, parasite invasion method, and patterns of blood flow.
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