Sunday, 24 November 2013

Say Cheese! It's new cheese, made from human feet and armpit, care for?

Sissel Tolaas (left) and Christina Agapakis (right) have grown the stomach-churning variety of cheese as part of a project called 'Selfmade' which has gone on show in Dublin
Since a smelly pair of feet bears more than a slight resemblance to a block of ripe cheese, scientists have taken this link to the next level by making cheese from a foot.

Experts have made the stomach-churning creations using bacteria from the human foot as well as a belly button and even an armpit.
Scientist Christina Agapakis and scent expert Sissel Tolaas gathered microbes for their project 'Selfmade' which recently debuted at an exhibition about synthetic biology in Dublin. 

Tangy: The stomach-churning creations were made by experts who harvested bacteria from a number of donors  Eleven cheeses were used for the exhibition.
Each cheese was created using starter cultures sampled from the skin of artists, scientists, anthropologists, and cheese makers.
The samples of bacteria used in the cheese came from armpits, a foot, a bellybutton and tears and were taken using sterile cotton swabs.
Ms Agapakis told Dezeen: 'Despite [their] chemical and biological similarities, there are obviously very different cultural and emotional responses to stinky cheese and stinky feet.
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