A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
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Re: A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
#2Man, I have a hard enough time trying to keep track of a micro SD card, imagine misplacing your DNA based files?
Seriously tho, using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept.
Re: A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
#3Just so we're clear, this is ONE pixel per, I don't know, 10000 cells or so. So one bit per DNA chain, with that bit repeated thousands of times to get redundancy. Still and incredible achievement.
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#4Anyone else think that there is already primitive image data encoded in biological data? Essentially basic shapes and patterns which are passed down semi-generationally.
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#5Something like this was posited in Banks’ Excession, and I remember thinking how advanced passing messages via DNA embedded in bacterial seemed.
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#6Just so we're clear, this is ONE pixel per, I don't know, 10000 cells or so. So one bit per DNA chain, with that bit repeated thousands of times to get redundancy. Still and incredible achievement.
The super neat thing is that they tag each DNA chain with the pixel coordinates, so you can afterwards mix those 10,000 DNA strands each for all 96 pixels into one 1-mio-DNA-strand-soup and still recover the image successfully.
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#7Can't wait until they do a worldwide investigation to find patient zero from the selfie encoded in the next pandemic.
Re: A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
#8Man, I have a hard enough time trying to keep track of a micro SD card, imagine misplacing your DNA based files? Seriously tho, using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept.
>using DNA as an information storage medium is a pretty neat concept
And billions of years old.
Re: A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA
#9Can't wait until they do a worldwide investigation to find patient zero from the selfie encoded in the next pandemic.
> Can't wait until they do a worldwide investigation to find patient zero from the selfie encoded in the next pandemic.
Then they realise the picture is this dude: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/07/robert-cornelius-and-the-f...
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#10Related: The Verge's DNA time capsule [0].