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So how long before carefully crafted images, text, etc are 'encoded' into the DNA of a highly lethal virus?
by craftyguy 8y ago
So how long before carefully crafted images, text, etc are 'encoded' into the DNA of a highly lethal virus?
- shakna 8y agoWell, a 5-frame image was already encoded into DNA about 12 months ago. [0] But this method could probably increase information density, if I'm reading it correctly. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299 https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40585299
- mirimir 8y agoIt doesn't need to be lethal, just highly transmissible. And persistent. Such as Herpes. And not necessarily even symptomatic. Here's the requisite quote from Echopraxia, by Peter Watts: > Even DNA computers, custom-built for a specific task and then tramped carelessly into wild genotypes like muddy footprints on a pristine floor. Nowadays it seemed like half the technical data on the planet were being stored genetically. Try sequencing a lung fluke and it was even money whether the base pairs you read would code for protein or the technical specs on the Denver sewer system.
- isthatart 8y agoMore precisely, a 5 frames animation was encoded into bacterial DNA and retrieved in the genome of descendants after several generations https://www.nature.com/news/lights-camera-crispr-biologists-use-gene-editing-to-store-movies-in-dna-1.22288 https://www.nature.com/news/lights-camera-crispr-biologists-...