Very proud that John and three manuscripts on Heirloom all accepted for publication in Leonardo. Thank you all! 'Heirloom: Living Portraits of and for the Artist’s Daughters Created out of Their Own Cultured Cells' was posted on the Leonardo Just Accepted page, hosted by MIT Press, on 4 October 2016. Available at: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/leon/0/ja 'Displaying the Researched Body: Growing Cell Portraits in a Medical Museum' by Louise Whiteley, Karin Tybjerg, Bente

Professor John Hunt and artist Gina Czarnecki come from different professional worlds. But in coming together to create the currently touring Heirloom, they have invented a radical piece of living portraiture that is evolving and in multiple, expansive ways, pushing the horizons of science and art, and making discoveries in the process. Living portraits of Gina’s two daughters – Lola and Saskia – are grown from cell samples taken back in 2014. Over time the cells reach the th