In this book, Professor of Gender Studies Susan Merrill Squier considers biologist C. H. Waddington’s concept of the epigenetic landscape in the context of art and design.

This work consists of a series of interventions on different scales, in pursuit of making a pigeon defecate soap.

This exhibition is the second in the 'Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology' series and features a range of art and science works that consider the implications of new and emerging biotechnologies.

This 2003 Report from the Australian Law Reform Commission outlines governance recommendations to protect genetic information.

The occcasional paper series from the Centre for Law and Genetics provide in depth analysis of current legal, ethical and social implications of genetic technologies including recommendations for law and regulatory reform.

A short podcast series by the Guardian and funded by Wellcome Trust on the prospect of Gene Editing.

A short overview of artist Andre Brodyk's ‘Alzheimer’s Portraits’ project featured as part of the Multspecies Salon book by Eben Kirksy.

This short blog article discusses the presence of viruses in the human genome and potential health implications.

This company specialises in commercial artwork from DNA sequencing

Commercial project in which digital artists FIELD partnered with Chivas Regal to create generative DNA portraits of the craft distillers that developed the 'Ultis' blend.

Podcasts by the Genetics Society on a range of topics concerning Genetics, Evolution and Health,.

This short article considers what distinguishes human DNA from other primates with a focus on human specific non coding DNA.

Leda Melanitis is an artistic project by Melanitis Yiannis in which the artist inserts a human gene into the genome of a butterfly.

This article considers the potential of using long-range familial searches of direct to consumer genetic databases to identify an individual in criminal cases.

This article outlines horizontal gene transfer in the human genome.

This short article considers how horizontal gene transfers from bacteria may integrate into chromosomes and impact on organisms such as pillbugs.

This Nature article provides a brief overview of the history of using DNA to produce nanoscale shapes and objects.

This article examines the ethical implications of personalised medicine including informed consent, risk, equity, data sharing and hype/promise.

In this book, Professor of Gender Studies Susan Merrill Squier considers biologist C. H. Waddington’s concept of the epigenetic landscape in the context of art and design.

A Leonardo article focusing on genetic engineering in art.

Genomixer' consists of a series of geneative works based on the artists DNA sequence.

Gods Logic System' is a screen-based artwork in which the artist visualises 3.3 billion letters of his genetic code (1 sec per letter). The work commenced online in 2004 and will run for 107 years.

This Nature article outlines a mechanism of using DNA to create nanoscale 3D Shapes including 'monolith, square nut, railed bridge, genie bottle, stacked cross and slotted cross'.

This article provides a comprehensive overview of Human endogenous retroviruses (HERVs)and their potential role within the human genome including disease and autoimmunity.

This article considers DNA patenability following the Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., determination that isolated DNA is unpatentable.

This article by forensic scholars assesses privacy implications in using DNA analysis to predict phenotype characteristics and ancestry of criminal suspects.

For her ambitious OneTrees (2000) project Natalie Jeremijenko cloned 1,000 trees as a way to express genetics’ complex interaction with environmental influences, which is often oversimplified in public discourse about cloning.

This short article outlines the new technique of 'DNA microscopy' to visualise genetically tagged cells.

This article discusses the uptake of DNA as portraiture through mainstream commercial companies.

Paradise Now' is a large group exhibition exploring the implications of genetic research and technologies.

This website documents genetic portraits by artist Marc Quinn.

This article surveys artists from the 1990s onwards that employ genetic material as part of their artistic production.

This article considers genetic art and public discussion and debate regarding genetic research using examples from artist Eduardo Kac, the exhibition Paradise Now and and the FBI case surrounding artist Steve Kurtz.

This article examines the ecological and cultural risks, benefits, and costs of employing synthetic biology to assist with evolution and the de-extinction of species.

The project 'Genetic Automata' by Larry Achiampong and David Blandy examines race, identity and the histories that influence Western scientific thought.

This website features work of artist Kevin Clarke that integrates sequenced DNA text.

This article provides an in-depth overview of the DNA microscopy process and potential application for analysing and mapping the spatial organisation of molecules.

Super-resolution techniques have begun to transform biological and biomedical research by allowing researchers to observe structures well below the classic diffraction limit of light.

What if the FBI put the family of everyone who has ever been convicted or arrested into a giant DNA database?

This article reviews the exhibition 'Paradise Now' that considers the impact and implications of biotechnologies, particularly genetic technologies.

The Demiurge is an artwork by Jaden (JJ) Hastings that uses a trained neural network to suggest beneficial genetic modifications for human subjects

This article considers how genetic bioinformation is being applied to a range of discipinary areas (beyond scienctific applications) to gain insight into human identity formation.

This book chapter considers the use of DNA Phenotyping and Familial DNA searches as part of criminal investigations with a focus on potential stigmatisation in vulnerable populations.

In this article, clinical genetics scholars consider the implications of using DNA sequencing to customise clinical approaches to disease management.

In Stranger Visions the artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg collected hairs, gum, and cigarette butts from public areas in New York and extracted DNA from them to create 3d printed portraits of the individuals based on current research.

Probably Chelsea is a collection of thirty different possible portraits of whistleblower Chelsea Manning algorithmically-generated by an analysis of her DNA.

This Exhibition examines the role of art in response to new biotechnological developments.

This book provides an in-depth discussion of genome editing from a science and technology studies perspective.

This article considers the privacy implications of genetic testing and analysis with a focus on data use and management.

The increasing popularity and availability of genetic testing has the potential to play into debates surrounding forms of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land ownership known as “native title”.

This article considers ancient DNA research and the hype that often accompanies new technological developments in DNA sequencing and analysis.

The DNA Mystique suggests that the gene in popular culture draws on scientific ideas but is not constrained by the technical definition of the gene as a section of DNA that codes for a protein. In highlighting DNA as it appears in soap operas, comic books, advertising, and other expressions of mass culture, the authors propose that these domains provide critical insights into science itself.

This article provides insight into how artists are integrating DNA and genetic information into their practice.

Sugababe is a living replica of Vincent van Gogh's ear. It was created using various technologies such as tissue engineering, genetic engineering and cell reprogramming.

This report froms part of the Occasional Paper Series published by the Centre for Law and Genetics. This publication considers the impact of the decision of the High Court of Australia in D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc on Genetic Testing costs in Australia.

This book examines the legal and ethical uncertainties in biobanking, particularly in relation to genetic privacy and regulation.

This article discusses key privacy issues that may emerge from direct to consumer genetic testing when applied in a law enforcement context.

An article reviewing three main pathways for de-extinction: back-breeding, cloning via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and genetic engineering.

An online archive of digital/computational projects by artist Ben Fry that draw on genetic code and biological data.

This article features an interview with Anna Dimitriu on her FEAT (Future Emerging Art and Technology) project that uses CRISPR gene editing techniques to insert a hidden genomic message into bacteria.

This book provides a detailed overview of de-extinciton rhetoric and the perceived role of technology in addressing species decline and extinction.

This podcast episode examines gene patenting drawing on the case of Myriad Genetics.

This review article provides insight into the CRISPR gene editing system and potential applications.

This article explores the question of "what makes us human" with consideration of genetic, environmental, cultural and behavioural factors.

This article critically engages with the idea of using cloning to revive extinct species.

Flongle is an adapter for MinION or GridION that enables direct, real-time DNA sequencing, or cDNA sequencing on smaller, single-use flow cells.

Poet, film maker and digital producer of Wiradjuri heritage, Jazz Money, examines the potential benefits and threats to Indigenous data sovereignty in increasingly digitised spaces.

This article explores ‘ownership’ in relation to clinical data. The article argues that clinical data are ‘co-constructed,’ so a property account would fail to confer exclusive rights to the patient. The article suggests that a non-property account of ownership acknowledges that the data are ‘about the patient’, and therefore the patient has relevant interests, without jumping to the conclusion that the data ‘belongs to the patient’. The approach seeks to ameliorate the severing of the connection between the patient and their data, with the solution being to re-engage and re-connect patients to the data research enterprise.

Digital data generation is increasing exponentially, and estimates suggest that the amount of new data being generated each year has already surpassed the data storage capacity of current technologies. DNA presents an alternative technology for the storage of digital information due to several attractive properties.

Scientists will examine the mammoth to learn whether it will yield enough undamaged DNA to make cloning the extinct creature a reality

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) allows the study of structures such as DNA molecules that are so small that light steers around them. This allows the study of DNA and structures on a nanometric scale such as individual proteins or molecules, far below the resolution limit imposed by the properties of light.

The Doodeward v Spence (1908) High Court of Australia case is a landmark case that challenged the long-standing legal principle of ‘no property in a body.’ The case decided that property ownership rights could be conferred over human tissues separated from the body, to persons or organisations who exercised forms of ‘skill’ or ‘work’ on the tissues.

This paper considers the landmark legal case of Yearworth and Others v North Bristol NHS Trust, in which the principle of ‘there’s no property in a body’ was challenged, throwing into doubt a number of doctrines with respect to property and the body. The article concludes that, while Yearworth engages with, and impacts on, important theoretical and practical issues, from legal, healthcare and research perspectives, it does not offer a great deal of guidance and, for that reason, its precedential significance is questioned.

Life’s information-storage system is being adapted to handle massive amounts of information.

A North Queensland funeral home has developed a world-first water-spray alternative to cremation that leaves half a cup of liquid DNA instead of ashes.

This weeks post is a guest post from the wonderful E.E. Giorgi of Chimera blog I AM MY MOTHER'S CHIMERA. CHANCES ARE, SO ARE YOU For years now the concept of a "genetic chimera" has sparked the imagination of writers: the idea that an individual could harbor his/her own twin is creepy and intriguing at the same time.

Disclosure of genetic information without consent of the patient (proband) challenges the legal frameworks of privacy and confidentiality. Changes to privacy legislation enable and provide guidelines for undertaking disclosure, with the purpose of reducing the harm to genetic relatives who, armed with such information, may seek predictive testing themselves. Nevertheless, significant uncertainty remains for health care professionals in the application of the discretion to disclose genetic information to at-risk relatives.

Aboriginal Australians preserve one of the longest continuous cultural complexes known, with archaeological evidence dating initial settlement of the continent to around 50,000 years ago. Alan Cooper and colleagues have charted the subsequent progress of humanity in and around the continent in the form of 111 mitochondrial genomes from preserved hair samples. The results show that, from landfall in the north of Australia, people spread rapidly around the east and west coasts, meeting in southern Australia as early as 49,000 years ago. Strong regional patterns of mitochondrial DNA variation suggest that when people stopped moving they stayed put, putting down cultural roots that have weathered 50,000 years of significant cultural and climatic change.

This report considers the ethical and social issues that arise when people are asked to donate bodily material (such as organs, blood, eggs and sperm) to benefit others. It sets out guidance to help people consider the ethical acceptability of various ways of encouraging people to donate, both for treatment of others and for scientific research.

The database analysis shows a measurable bias toward genetic data based on European ancestry over that of African ancestry.

NCIG is bringing Indigenous decision-making into a high-performance biomedical research environment.

The Roadmap Epigenomics Project generates valuable resources and tools and also highlights questions that still need addressing.

Using the metaphor and actuality of the ‘everyday cyborg’, this article makes the case that the law is ill-equipped to deal with challenges raised by the linking of the organic, biological person with synthetic, inorganic parts and devices. The article calls attention to how the law utilises and incorporates supposed ontological and moral boundaries, and the challenges which everyday cyborgs pose to this.

Over the past century, genetics has experienced a tension between the view that racial and ethnic categories are biologically meaningful and the view that these social classifications have little or no biological significance.

The study of environmental DNA can reveal information about the history and presence of Indigenous communities on their lands — potentially even inadvertently. Better engagement with the ethical aspects of environmental DNA research is required in the field as a whole, and especially for researchers working on Indigenous lands.

The blood and tissue derived from childbirth are a gold mine — but parents aren’t sharing in the profits