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 | '''29/11/2017----Reference to movie "Life"''' 
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 | Experimenting with one cellular organism, slime mold, physarum polycefalum
  |  | == ''''Brainless' but 'intelligent' slime mold''' ==  | 
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 | Similarity to human brain
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 | to grow slime mold on different glasses in order to achieve 3d model
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 | Maybe is better to start with simulation in order make needed paterns
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 | Next stage would be with living organism: at the point when it is grown, to dry it
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 | [[:File:biolab-idea-jiannan-pdf.pdf]]  |  | [[/4.Conclusion]]  | 
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 | == '''1.Experiment''' ==
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 | '''15/12/2017---experiment 1: start with waking up the slime molds'''
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 | To have better samples to build the art installation, try to wake up old slime molds samples by growing them in the medium.
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 | four samples:
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 | A-normal medium(pure agar, salt, yeast, water..)+8-10 pieces of cereals
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 | B-normal medium
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 | C&D-normal medium+wet and old filter paper
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 | samples are kept in dark lockers under 20 degrees
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 | '''20/12/2017---experiment 2: waking up new slime molds samples from Sinan'''
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 | samples from the last experiment failed.
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 | Sample A was seriously contaminated. Nothing happened in sample B, C, &D
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 | reason could be too much cereals or others
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 | repeat the experiment with 3 more samples:
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 | all in same condition: medium(Compound agar, water...)+1 piece of cereal
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 | samples are kept in dark lockers under 24-26 degrees
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 | '''21/12/2017---Update on experiment 2: bacteria'''
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 | the samples look like contaminated by some bacteria in the middle
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 | '''23/12/2017---Update on experiment 2: failed'''
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 | the samples are contaminated and slime molds didn't wake up
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 | reasons could be the temperature was too warm for the slime molds, food was too little and it was not humid enough inside the mediums
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 | '''02/01/2018---experiment 3: grow new samples(from sinan) under suitable temperature'''
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 | repeat the experiment with 4 more samples:
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 | all in same condition: medium(Compound agar, water...)+3 pieces of cereal
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 | A-sealed and kept on a shelf, 20 degrees;
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 | B-not sealed and in a locker, 22 degrees;
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 | C-sealed and kept in a locker, 22 degrees;
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 | D-not sealed and kept on a shelf, 20 degrees.
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 | '''08/01/2018---Update on experiment 3: possibly slime molds once woke up but died afterwards'''
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 | all the samples are contaminated to some extend, but sample B shows similar trace of growing slime molds according to the shape
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 | I will try this sample again and another ones with new humid filter papers and wood chips(which i searched online are good mediums for slime molds)
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 | got the sections of the human brain model, 10 layers in total
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