Human cheese and Elvis mice: the future of bio-design – in pictures

Stranger Visions is a project by Heather Dewey-Hagborg. She managed to recreate these full 3D-printed faces from DNA on discarded cigarette butts she stole from the streets of Dublin
Photograph: Heather Dewey-Hagborg/Science Gallery, Dublin

Cheese grown from human bacteria, from the project Selfmade by Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas
Photograph: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg/Science Gallery, Dublin

And the end result ... a whole wheel of human cheese, made by Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas
Photograph: Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg/Science Gallery, Dublin

I Wanna Deliver a Dolphin created by designer Ai Hasegawa, who says: 'Wouldn't it be nice to give birth to an endangered species?' He believes his project could solve both the Earth's overpopulation (making people give birth to animals rather than humans …) and the global food shortage (… then eating their aquatic offspring) in one fell swoop Photograph: Freddie Stephens/Science Gallery, Dublin

Elvis mice ... Koby Barhard bought hair samples of Elvis Presley on eBay, then sent them to a genetics lab and made mice clones based on the King's genetic information
Photograph: Matthew Booth/Science Gallery, Dublin

For E.Chromi, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, James King and the University of Cambridge's iGEM 2009 team have developed E coli that smells like bananas Photograph: Asa Johannesson/Science Gallery, Dublin

A still from the project New Mumbai by Tobias Revell. Revell has reimagined the poverty-stricken area of Dharavi in Mumbai with these genetically modified mushrooms that could provide energy, heat and light for residents Photograph: Tobias Revell/Science Gallery, Dublin

A miraculous mechanism that makes gold from water ... Adam W Brown's alchemical bioreactor, known as The Great Work of the Metal Lover
Photograph: Adam W. Brown/Science Gallery, Dublin

For her project Blighted by Kenning, Charlotte Jarvis has grown fruit with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights encoded into its DNA sequence
Photograph: James Read/Science Gallery, Dublin