A panel of scientists has succeeded in using the CRISPR genetic manipulation technique to insert a GIF (namely an image) into the genome of a still alive bacterium, an E.coli. The researchers converted single pixels of each image into nucleotides, DNA “building bricks”. They delivered the GIF into living bacteria in the form of five frames: pictures of a galloping horse and rider, taken by English photographer Eadweard Muybridge, who produced the first stop-motion photographs in the 1970s. The researchers were then able to recover data by sequencing bacterial DNA with a 90% accuracy by reading the nucleotide pixel code.
The whole activity is explained in detail by the magazine “Nature“.
An extremely important experiment.
Imagine if we could save in your DNA, always with us, all our photos, videos, movies, TV series, documents: everything. This could be the future, given the enormous capacity of our DNA to save and store huge amounts of data much more efficiently than we’ve been able to replicate today with technology.
It would be a revolution with a deep impact on how we read and render technology, data retention and transmission, but above all it could also set out new future standards in body and technology melting.
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