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- travbrack, on 02/21/2008, -0/+25or how about this, an entire CD could fit inside of one strand of DNA.
- greenlight2001, on 02/21/2008, -1/+15Talk about a great way to smuggle information around. 750 MB worth of data in the space of a single cell. Great for your international spies!
- alphaeno, on 02/21/2008, -1/+13"The human genome consists of the equivalent of approximately 750 megabytes of data"
Sorta pathetic the whole human genome can fit onto a CD... - cdigioia, on 02/21/2008, -1/+13No, sorta pathetic that Vista can't
- ChaoticCheez, on 02/21/2008, -0/+10Forget about Lifehacker's so-called "Body Hacks," These will be real body hacks!
- drspin, on 02/21/2008, -0/+9Pathetic or elegant?
- josegutz, on 02/21/2008, -2/+10I like boobs.
- nullifidian0, on 02/21/2008, -0/+8All your *base pairs* are belong to us... sheesh, some people...
- freezeout, on 02/21/2008, -0/+8in the future, celebrity genomes will be available to download via bittorrent
- drspin, on 02/21/2008, -2/+9"Why is this discovery important? The human genome consists of the equivalent of approximately 750 megabytes of data – a significant amount of storage space. However, only about three percent of DNA goes into composing the more than 22,000 genes that make us what we are. The remaining 97 percent leaves plenty of room to encode information in a genome, allowing the information to be preserved and replicated in perpetuity."
You mean, we only know what the 3% is for - start mucking around with the other 97% and don't look surprise when that blows up in our faces. - MacEnvy, on 02/21/2008, -1/+7More like Goa'uld. Genetic memory and all.
- paintist, on 02/21/2008, -0/+6HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM JOHNNY MNEMONIC?
- wheresjim, on 02/21/2008, -1/+6This isn't new, there was a company in the early 2000s encoding data in plant DNA, it turned out to be a big stock swindle because there's no efficient way to read DNA data in a timely manner, yet anyway.
FTA: “The decoding still requires a wet lab procedure"
So you can write whatever you want, but until you come up with a better way to read it, it's useless. - LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Once again, Futurama predicts the future...
- orangetiki, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4Yeah and what could he hold? 80 gigs? 160 with his "doubler"?
- PaxImperium, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4Just wait until we get the HD-DNA and Blu-DNA format wars...
- killtherat, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4This is a better way to read it. The point is you don't need to sequence the DNA now. Rather, simply use a digestion enzyme and measure the masses of the resultant fragments. This is much easier then DNA sequencing. Yes, you still need a wet lab, but now rather then a multi million dollar lab, it can be done in an entry level biochemistry lab.
- IsangMahal, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4HIghlander is the mascot for UC Riverside. Not a reference to that retarded movie.
- freezeout, on 02/21/2008, -0/+4if I host pirated mp3 files in my DNA what are the legal implications?
- Nuggstein, on 02/21/2008, -0/+3Wonderful. We're going to be turned into computers now. It's only a matter of time before the government starts knocking on our doors...
- ubundufus, on 02/21/2008, -1/+4This brings a whole new meaning to the phrase " its on my floppy drive"
- theHealingTree, on 02/21/2008, -3/+6now you can back up your hard drive to an actual brain!
- shinythingy, on 02/21/2008, -1/+4My CD's are 700 mb
- trer, on 02/21/2008, -5/+8Go Highlanders.
- nullifidian0, on 02/21/2008, -0/+3Lucy Liu!
- suppah, on 02/21/2008, -0/+3i would say it's a very good compression... in fact i think it's some sort of procedural rendering :asd:
- greenlight2001, on 02/21/2008, -0/+3I'd like to see the shovel you used to dig that ***** out of your ass. Have you taken *any* biology classes? Ever? Nothing you said there makes any sense what-so-ever.
- Astroseksy, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Damn right!
- inactive, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2They're out to get you.
- CaptShmo, on 02/21/2008, -2/+4innerspace rocks
- LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2So if you cut your finger - do you lose the report you were working on!
'Darn! There goes two drops of blood, and the last 10 years of my tax records...' - Harabeck, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Actually, there is evidence that those leftover genes are now inactive traits from our ancestral past. For instance, scientists have been able to produce tails on chickens by reactivating certain genes leftover from their dino ancestors.
- nullifidian0, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Actually, it was teeth.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/060222_chicken_ ... - LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2Red Blood Cells have no DNA - the nucleus is ejected during RBC maturation.
Nothing inside the RBCs but more space for more hemoglobin to hold more Oxygen...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_blood_cell
That is one reason RBCs have that strange double curved shape - no nucleus inside. - kuriero, on 02/22/2008, -0/+2I graduated from BCOE CompSci too. :)
- Fyzzix, on 02/21/2008, -1/+3Go Highlanders, indeed.
- inactive, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Oh whats this "windows" folder? none of my programs use it, and its taking up a lot of space, ill just go ahead and overwrite it.
- ligyron, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Meh. I've been storing albums in my free DNA space for years, and I'm still completely normal and sane.
- greenlight2001, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Is that why you've been hearing music in your head?
- nullifidian0, on 02/21/2008, -0/+2Dugg for innuendo.
- joshuabowers, on 02/21/2008, -1/+3My alma mater! I took a course taught by Stefano Lonardi.
- LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1W00t ! Look Ma, 4 Arms! And the entire works of Shakespeare ...
- LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1So, how long before they develop crystal memory cubes?
I always thought a crystal matrix with molecules of photosensitive dye trapped within the voids accessed by a double split laser would make a very high density storage device.
Holographic memory crystals should be developed by someone!
Come on Seagate! get to work ! I want my notebook PC to have
an 800 terabyte storage crystal for the next Windows Vista update. - supermanred, on 02/24/2008, -0/+1Does anyone really believe that what scientists call "junk" DNA is actually junk? They just don't know what it is yet, and to fill it with crap data could have some pretty bad outcomes on the day we figure out what that DNA is for.
- nullifidian0, on 02/21/2008, -0/+1He was faking it anyway.
- LeeSoong, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1Look out for the Microsoft Windows Service Pack ... it's gonna give you a big headache.
- greenlight2001, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1No can do, sorry.... http://xkcd.com/386/
- travbrack, on 02/21/2008, -1/+2Does this mean people are going to start getting murdered so their bodies can be harvested for storage space? Whoa...
- LightPhoenix, on 02/21/2008, -1/+2Warning: will get Dugg down for ranting, probably rightfully so.
I'm seriously going to hurt whoever decided to call the non-gene-coding regions of DNA "junk DNA."
Just because that 97% doesn't directly encode genes, doesn't mean it doesn't have a use. There's all sorts of binding sites for various regulatory and packaging factors within that non-coding DNA. This is the important part: we don't know what a lot of it is. Just because we don't know what it does doesn't mean it is useless, and definitely doesn't mean it doesn't have a use. It's like that saying about using 10% of our brain - completely untrue, and very damaging to common understanding of basic science. I mean, if I said, hey, we don't know what those neurons in your brain do, so let's overwrite them... it sounds completely retarded. This is no different. - rrwiz, on 02/22/2008, -0/+1This is most likely a military-industrial complex endeavor. If you google - Dick Cheney race specific bioweapons - you will find thousands of hits, here is a sample.. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2006 ... if you disagree, which is fine... how could there be a retail application to storing data on living tissue? which is not transportable and they say it cannot be retrieved....its completely impractical for any legitimate data storage that I can think of...
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