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Me, My Genes, and I

First Published April 2008
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PHOTO: dna 11

From US $390 (small) to $790 (pictured size); http://www.dna11.com.

Most medical images are too obscure (think spleen) or all too clear (think brain) to appeal as art, but Ottawa-based DNA 11 has hit on the happy medium: your genes. The firm extracts DNA from your inner cheek, ­copies it, pulls it through an ­electric field to ­separate it into bars and blanks, and ­photographs the eerily glowing pattern in a color of your choice.


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