Archives: Smycken
The golden ratio, earrings
The golden ratio earings in silver 925.
The golden ratio is about how you can place things so that it feels harmonious and natural to the eye. The golden ratio is the ratio between two sides and a mathematical constant with the value 1.618. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa follows the golden ratio.
SPR sensorgram
Jacket pin/brooch of a SPR sensogram in silver 925.
A Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) sensorgram can reveal whether there is a binding between an analyte (e.g. antibody) and a ligand (e.g. protein) and whether the binding is specific.
Enamelled maple leaf
Hand sawed, enamelled maple leaf in silver 925 inspired by autumn colours.
When chlorophyll breaks down in the fall, the yellow colours of the carotenoids appear and the red colour of the autumn leaves is mainly caused by anthocyanins.
Mitochondrial DNA in silver 925
Silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022.
The Nobel Prize in was awarded to Svante Pääbo “for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution”.
Svante Pääbo mapped the genome of Neanderthals by sequencing mitochondrial DNA, mtDNA, from pieces of Neanderthal human bone. mtDNA is a small circular chromosome found inside the mitochondrion.
Two particles with entangled photons
Silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prize 2022 in Physics. The Nobel Prize was awarded to A. Aspect, J. Clauser and A. Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”. The two particles do not have a definite state before they are measured. Both particles are gray, with no secret information, until someone looks at one of them. Chance decides. One may turn out to be green/blue. Immediately the other particle then gets the opposite color.
Triazole
Silver jewelry inspired by the Nobel Prize 2022 in Chemistry.
The Nobel Prize was awarded to C. R. Bertozzi, M. Meldal and K. B. Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry”. Click chemistry is a new and systematic way of building molecules by snap together molecular building blocks. The jewelry shows the crown jewel of click chemistry: the product of the copper catalysed azide-alkyne cycloaddition.
Bispecific IgG antibody
The necklace shows a schematic form of an bispecific IgG antibody in 1.5 mm silver wire. One half is gold-plated with 23K gold leaf.
A bispecific antibody is an artificial protein that can simultaneously bind to two different antigens.
Trisomy
Handmade silver jewelery showing three X chromosomes, trisomy.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Trisomy means that there is an extra chromosome on a pair of chromosomes. The most common trisomy is that of chromosome 21, which causes Down syndrome, trisomy 21.
Nootkatone
Pendant of nootkatone in 1.2 mm silver wire with the oxygen atom as oxidized silver ball.
A substance that gives the grapefruit its special smell and taste. Nootkatone has been shown to repel ticks and mosquitoes.
Y chromosome in silver
Handmade silver jewelry representing an Y chromosome.
The Y chromosome is the male sex chromosome and the smallest chromosome in the cell.
Researchers have recently shown that loss of the Y chromosome in men’s white blood cells leads to fibrosis in the heart, impaired heart function and increased mortality in cardiovascular disease.
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