

Descience Dress on Display at the Boston MFA
The Descience 2014 Runway show’s Grand Prize winning dress is now on display at the Boston MFA’s #techstyle exhibit. Designed by scientist Tal Danino and fashion designer Tatiana Tejedor of team Quorum 54, the dress depicts Danino’s research studying the use of bacteria as a treatment for cancer. The patterning comes from a microscope image of the bacteria detecting and destroying cancer cells. In Danino’s experiments, the bacteria fluoresce, which Tejedor incorporated into t