Sentences with phrase «into nonfunctional»

Erlich is well known for turning the ordinary — an elevator, a swimming pool, a staircase, and in this instance, a harbor — into a nonfunctional work that takes the viewer into a world of deception.

Bacteria stay perfectly intact too — except that they are quite dead, because the pressure contorts their DNA and proteins into nonfunctional shapes.

Not exact matches

Not only can they be stained and icky, crumbs and liquids can find their way into moving parts, making things nonfunctional.

The team spliced a nonfunctional gene for the ethylene receptor, taken from a common laboratory plant called Arabidopsis, into petunias.

Additionally, we support and expand upon the hypothesis that X inactivation is primarily driven by gene loss on the Y. Using linear discriminant analysis, we show that X-inactivation status can successfully classify 90 % of X-linked genes into those with functional or nonfunctional Y homologs.

That makes storage solutions critical — and aside from a full gut and remodel, it often means turning wasted space and nonfunctional areas in the bathroom into storage solutions.

Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.

The artwork is a prototype for a nonfunctional satellite by Trevor Paglen, who has already launched art into space.