Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
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Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#2I read the article, but I'm still quite confused. How exactly did they "insert" a computer image into living bacteria?? Do they mean they have stored binary code in the bacteria?? Or did they just physically create a fine image somewhere in the bacteria???
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#3Inspecting for exfil just got a lot harder.
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#4so storing data on multiple (billions of bacteria). I assume that you would have populations of duplicates and would piece together your entire original dataset (e.g. a tar) using start and end encoding tags? How do you re-sequence multiple populations of bacteria that you just grab from a sample sitting in a -80c freezer? You'd also have to prevent them from modifying their own genome and messing up your data.
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#5previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755429
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#6I read the article, but I'm still quite confused. How exactly did they "insert" a computer image into living bacteria?? Do they mean they have stored binary code in the bacteria?? Or did they just physically create a fine image somewhere in the bacteria???
they store the data in the dna, they encode pixels using ATGC, and re-sequence. But they only have one population of bacteria that contain all of the same data.
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#7I read the article, but I'm still quite confused. How exactly did they "insert" a computer image into living bacteria?? Do they mean they have stored binary code in the bacteria?? Or did they just physically create a fine image somewhere in the bacteria???
They inserted the binary code in the dna using CRISPR and CAS-9
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#8Pay-walled science don't you just love it? Why do they bother - it isn't science until you publish IMHO. This is just showing their rich friends.
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#9Pay-walled science don't you just love it? Why do they bother - it isn't science until you publish IMHO. This is just showing their rich friends.
I suspect that falsely denouncing paywalled research as "not science" isn't going to work in bringing about the outcome that you want. Probably a strategy without so many scotsmen would work better.
Re: Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria
#10previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14755429
Yeah, not to be prude, but this was literally posted yesterday. The actual article, too.