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Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an information artist and bio-hacker. She is best known for her project Stranger Visions, a series of portraits created from DNA she recovered from discarded items, such as hair, cigarettes and chewing gum while living in Brooklyn, New York. From the extracted DNA, she determined gender, ethnicity and other factors and then used face-generating software and a 3D printer to create a speculative, algorithmically determined 3D portrait. While critical of technology and surveillance, her work has also been noted as provocative in its lack of legal precedent.

Maurocalcine (MCa) is a protein, 33 Amino acid residues in length, isolated from the venom of the scorpion Maurus palmatus, which belongs to the family Chactidae, first characterized in 2000. The toxin is present in such small amounts that it could not be isolated to analyze it, so a chemical synthesis of this toxin was performed by the solid-phase technique so it could be fully characterized. It shares 82% sequence identity with imperatoxin A (IpTx A), a scorpion toxin from the venom of Pandinus imperator. IpTx A acts by modifying the activity of the type 1 ryanodine receptor of skeletal muscle. RyR controls the intracellular Ca²⁺ permeability of various cell types and is central in the process of excitation–contraction of muscle tissues. The synthesized toxin, sMCa is active on RyR1 and it binds onto a site different from that of ryanodine itself.

Domenico Casalino is an Italian executive. He was CEO of Consip, a public stock company owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance operating in the public procurement services field and Techno Sky, the ENAV Group society for maintenance and development of the air traffic management technologies.