Now we can store video in living DNA

• Autores: Douglas Heaven
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3134, 2017, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Life is an open book and were writing in it. A team at Harvard University has used the CRISPR genome-editing tool to encode video into live bacteria--demonstrating for the first time that they can turn microbes into librarians that can pass records on to their descendants--and perhaps to theirs. DNA can store a lot of data: 1 gram of single-stranded DNA could encode 100 billion DVDs. So far, this has been done using synthetic DNA. They can store big files like images and text, but until now there's been no way to record something as complex as changes to an image over time, like a movie.