Carla Valentine

Carla Valentine Instagram – A modern take on the “Frankenstein” story? This is ‘Regenerative Reliquary’ by Amy Karle (@artist_amy_karle), a skeletal hand grown in a lab. In the first step of the creative process in 2016, Karle and a team of experts scanned the bones of a female hand as the basis for a digital model. Then they gave the model pores and other microstructures that make it mimic bone. Karle 3-D-printed this scaffolding out of a biodegradable, nontoxic hydrogel. Finally, the team seeded the hydrogel with human stem cells and placed it in a bioreactor—a container to keep the project alive. Over the years, Karle wants the cells to grow over the scaffolding and ossify (turn into bone).
“We’ll see if the cells have a mind of their own,” she says. “I like to step back and let the artwork take over.” Karle hopes her work will inspire scientists who are growing bone for medical use. “I have an opportunity to bring attention to this type of research,” she says. There’s a whole lot more info as well as video and fantastic pics by Carl Nordstrom on her website amykarle.com. Her work is fascinating!
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#humanremains #bonetransplant | Posted on 08/Oct/2023 12:39:24