bacterial memory research

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can you believe this??

someday we shall record all our data to some bacterias, which will safeguard it for millions of years.

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2003/012903/Data_stored_in_live_cells_012903.html

Storing information is DNA's natural function, said Wong. "We [are] taking advantage of a time-tested, natural, nanoscale data storage technology perfected over the last 3 billion years." The encoding method could be used to store any digital information, he said. "Text, pictures, music -- anything you can send or receive over the Web could be saved in this form."

i want a liter of those nasty bacteria....

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Re: bacterial memory research

so our shit will be like our hard drives and the bacteria the info? bwwhahhahhaha