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Item: The Names of the Team of Scientists who Submitted an Article on the Human Chromosome 14 in Nature Magazine, February 2003.

2003

Mixed Media, 130 x 100 cm.
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Collection: Collection of Harrie Kolen, the Netherlands.

On three wooden panels joined by screws and plastic wire, Jimmie Durham attached (in print or writing) the names of 99 scientists who, in 2003, identified 1050 genes and 393 pseudogenes, about 96% of what constitutes the Chromosome 14. Humans have in their genetical code two copies of this chromosome, each inherited from each parent. It represents about 3,5% of our total DNA and its genes perform various roles in the human body. Through this discovery, 60 disease genes have be localized as well as 2 areas of crucial importance for the study of our immune system.

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Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012
Jimmie Durham moved to Europe in 1994 and has lived ever since in Brussels, Lisbon, Marseille, Rome and Berlin, where he is presently based (

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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di

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