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Researchers Use DNA To Record a Cell's Life History
sciencehabit writes If cells could talk, they'd have quite a story to tell: Their life history would include what molecules they'd seen passing by, which signals they'd sent to neighbors, and how they'd grown and changed. Researchers haven't quite given cells a voice, but they have now furnished them with a memory of sorts—one that's designed to record bits of their life history over the span of several weeks. The new method uses strands of DNA to store the data in a way that scientists can then read. Eventually, it could turn cells into environmental sensors, enabling them to report on their exposure to particular chemicals, among other applications.
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...waited a long time to use it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
...so they can deny your claim and get you turned into soylent faster! Go future, go!
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
This is only going to encourage luddites to use the most insipid marketing phrase of all time. "It's in my DNA."
Dude, nice FP for a DOA story.
Ever try debugging without having something like a log-file available?
Let's hope the hackers don't get a hold of this.
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Remember kids: All biological life can be explained without reference to design, and there is no scientific way to determine if design had happened, given any biological reference sample.
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