Thanks to Neil Gaiman, I've learned that scientists are testing data storage in bacteria. The really scary thing is the last section of the article, where the scientists admit that they haven't mixed populations of bacteria with different works stored in their DNA to see if the new DNA strings give any survival advantage. I wonder if bacteria storing Darwin books would last longer than bacteria storing Shakespeare?
Thursday, January 09, 2003
Thanks to Neil Gaiman, I've learned that scientists are testing data storage in bacteria. The really scary thing is the last section of the article, where the scientists admit that they haven't mixed populations of bacteria with different works stored in their DNA to see if the new DNA strings give any survival advantage. I wonder if bacteria storing Darwin books would last longer than bacteria storing Shakespeare?
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