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Using Bacterial DNA For Data Storage

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-repudiate dept.

NPV writes "January ACM Communications has an article on the use of DNA in genetically modified bacteria to store information. This is an attempt to achieve the ultimate in archival storage (one of the modified bacteria can tolerate 1000X more radiation than a human being). Now just suppose that the "junk DNA" in the human genome is the documentation package for the machine code. Who wrote that manual?" Here's the article abstract.

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  1. I wonder what bacteria would look like by Kasmiur · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    if we were to store Microsofts code in its DNA. Then give it a year to see what pops out.

    hmm.. then we could load up linux and see if it creates anything better.

    We could then put both the Microsoft bacteria in a dish with the linux bacteria and see who wins out.

    Would a beowulf cluster of microsoft bacteria be another form of cancer?

    wait wait
    so its out of everyones system.

    In Russian the bacteria puts DNA in you!
    or
    All your Disease are belong to us!

    blah

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    -THIS SPACE FOR RENT!
  2. Junk DNA by hackwrench · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Names like that are funny. I don't know why people keep doing that. Here's another one: imaginary numbers. Anybody else got some?