Fluorescent rabbits, slime mould and bacteria: artists get biological

We are in the midst of a golden age of biotechnology. Cloning, human augmentation, DNA editing, genetic manipulation and xenotransplantation (inter-species grafting of organs or tissues) used to be the stuff of science fiction or gothic novelsMary Shelleys Frankenstein comes to mindbut have now become fact. As biological scientists reshape the way we view ourselves and the world around us, artists are responding by engaging with living materials to express the opportunities and fears that come