MITOCHONDRIAL EVES I: WEST VALKYRIES |Audiovisual BioArt by Dulbecco & Giank Cerdas | 432Hz 4K 60fps

MITOCHONDRIAL EVES is a collection inspired in the female energy: that constructive vibe based on the care and love for the other that enables the birth of every mammal on earth. The vast majority of mitochondria in the mammalian zygotus are inherited from the mother, which means that they came from the ovum as the spermatozoid gives almost none upon fertilization. As all cells from our body derive from this primary cell, all mitochondria come from our mother as well. Based on the fact that mitochondria is the power supply of the cell, which enables the oxidative phosphotylation essential to our life, we could argue that every human being possesses female energy, independently of the sex at birth or the gender identity. This project is an invitation to reconnect with that original energy and left behind all bias and imposed constructs from society.
WEST VALKYRIES is a tribute to the Latin American woman, represented as chiral images that symbolize the strongest facets of their personalities as both mothers of our culture and warriors fighting against systematic unequalities.
Technique: Cell culture - Genetic engineering - Fluorescent proteins - Live-cell fluorescence imaging - Digital Art
Our related scientific publication:
Arias-Arias J. L. et al. (2020) A Fluorescence-Activatable Reporter of Flavivirus NS2B-NS3 Protease Activity Enables Live Imaging 0f Infection in Single Cells and Viral Plaques. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 295: 2212-2226. DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.011319
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