Written
by Gina Kolata
Published JULY
12, 2017
Think
about in elementary school. We had to have a small 500 mb flash drives to hold
our academic files such as essays or products. We now have 64 gb flash drives
and 8tb hard drives. Technology has come a long way. Now imagine if instead of
using a flash drive as storage, you can use your own DNA. Imagine being able to
encode something in your own flesh as storage. This is a fascinating thought
and seems unrealistic to the average person. Scientists used this assumption
and discovered that DNA can store implanted information.
Fun
Facts in the Article:
One
of the very first motion pictures ever made was a galloping mare
filmed by the British photographer Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, was encoded into
the DNA sequence of the bacteria E. coli.
Scientists
are wondering if it is possible to program bacteria to snuggle up to cells in the
human body. These cells will record what they are doing and make a movie of the
cell's life.
Richard
Feynman proposed that DNA could be used for storage. This was half a century
ago!
All of Shakespeare's Sonnets have been stored successfully in DNA. He wrote 154 different sonnets!
That is very neat, I feel like this could have broad applications in genetic testing. Storing your DNA on a flash drive might decrease the cost of expensive genetic tests since we have access to the sequence at hand!
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