Twist Bioscience Collaborates With Beyond Earth to Launch Artwork Stored in DNA Into Space
October 27 2020 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Twist Bioscience Corporation (Nasdaq: TWST) and Beyond Earth, an
artist collective, today announced a project to store
high-resolution artworks in DNA to be launched to low Earth orbit
and the Moon. Beyond Earth artists that will contribute work to the
project include: Elena Soterakis, New York, NY; Richelle Gribble,
Los Angeles, CA; and Yoko Shimizu, Linz, Austria and Tokyo,
Japan.
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To Space, From Earth is a Space Art DNA
Capsule utilizing emergent technology and artistic expression to
carry a visual message to space. Beyond Earth, an artist collective
exploring the frontiers of art and space, partners with Twist
Bioscience, a synthetic biology and genomics company, to encode
artwork into silicon-based synthetic DNA to be launched on a
spaceflight by 2022. Credit: Beyond Earth, Artworks by Elena
Soterakis, Yoko Shimizu, Richelle Gribble Space Image: NASA
Astronaut Photograph ISS60-E-071360, processed by Robert Simmon
In the ‘To Space, From Earth’ Capsule, select artworks made by
members of Beyond Earth reference life on Earth and the current
challenges we face referencing human population growth, consumption
and degradation, and preservation of Earth’s biodiversity. Artworks
reflect on the current geological age of the Anthropocene, where
human activity has a dominant effect on climate and the
environment. The artists chose to store this message of human
impact in synthetic DNA, which is present in nearly all living
organisms, to symbolize life on Earth. These artworks serve as a
visual record of this current time; they reflect challenges of
today to inspire new approaches for a better future. Beyond Earth
chose Twist Bioscience to encode the artwork in DNA, as the company
is leading the field of DNA data storage.
To store the artworks in DNA, they are digitized and converted
from binary data to the DNA bases represented by the letters A, T,
G and C. The encoded DNA sequences are synthesized with Twist
Bioscience’s silicon-based platform and preserved in a specialized
capsule. DNA is nature’s oldest and most resilient data storage
method; no energy or maintenance is required to preserve it; it is
ultra-dense and hence compact; and lasts hundreds of thousands of
years making it the ultimate time capsule for any digitized
artwork. For these reasons, To Space, From Earth will endure
the test of time and serve as an important record of human history
and the biosphere.
Beyond Earth will co-create with space, revealing how
spaceflight transforms and evolves artworks, and how space
preserves or alters their message over time. Beyond Earth is not
only exploring the unique storage capabilities of DNA, but also
testing data retrieval when DNA is exposed to the harsh conditions
of space.
About Beyond Earth:
Beyond Earth is an all-female international transdisciplinary
artist collective. Our mission is to explore the frontiers of art,
space, and biology through space-bound artworks. Such projects
co-create with space, explore planetary themes and expand
possibilities of artistic expression beyond Earth. We utilize
scientific and artistic research to create and deploy artworks in
space. We aim to uncover the vastness of creativity to represent a
plurality of perspectives in space and envision the future of
Earth. As artists, we believe that the sky is not the limit and
creativity is boundless, accelerating culture and vision that
transcends us.
We believe that the future of humanity expands the boundaries of
Earth and beyond. Our global initiatives allow individuals,
companies, and organizations to connect and explore together —
advancing our notion of space and our home planet.
Website: beyond-earth.org Instagram + Twitter: @beyondearthart
FB: @beyondearth.art
About Twist Bioscience:
At Twist Bioscience, we work in service of customers who are
changing the world for the better. In fields such as medicine,
agriculture, industrial chemicals and data storage, by using our
synthetic DNA tools, our customers are developing ways to better
lives and improve the sustainability of the planet. We have
developed a disruptive DNA synthesis platform to industrialize the
engineering of biology. The core of the platform is a proprietary
technology that pioneers a new method of manufacturing synthetic
DNA by “writing” DNA on silicon chips.
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Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements. All
statements other than statements of historical facts contained
herein, including but not limited to the ability of Twist and
Beyond Earth to successfully launch the artwork encoded in
synthetic DNA on a spaceflight by 2022, are forward-looking
statements reflecting the current beliefs and expectations of
management made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties, and other important factors that may cause Twist
Bioscience’s actual results, performance, or achievements to be
materially different from any future results, performance, or
achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking
statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the
risks and uncertainties of the ability to attract new customers and
retain and grow sales from existing customers; risks and
uncertainties of rapidly changing technologies and extensive
competition in synthetic biology could make the products Twist
Bioscience is developing obsolete or non-competitive; uncertainties
of the retention of a significant customer; risks of third party
claims alleging infringement of patents and proprietary rights or
seeking to invalidate Twist Bioscience’s patents or proprietary
rights; and the risk that Twist Bioscience’s proprietary rights may
be insufficient to protect its technologies. For a further
description of the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ from those expressed in these forward-looking
statements, as well as risks relating to Twist Bioscience’s
business in general, see Twist Bioscience’s risk factors set forth
in Twist Bioscience’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q dated August
12, 2020. Any forward-looking statements contained in this press
release speak only as of the date hereof, and Twist Bioscience
specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking
statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or
otherwise.
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