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- doctechnical, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32"Did you sneeze on me??!"
"No, I was uploading." - DeFex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I was cleaning out my fridge and found some cheese with "FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8" embedded in the culture genes.
boy that was old! - quomen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16(Warranty doesn't cover purell accidents)
- Lane, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14great so now we can have a LITERAL computer virus
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Strange... My cheese had the same illegal Windows XP CD Key. I'll never buy my cheese on the Internet again.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Torrents of tomorrow.
- robbyjo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Skip blog spam:
http://fe22.news.re3.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070223/sc_afp/sciencejapangenetics_070223191219
Original paper:
http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/bipret/asap/pdf/bp060261y.pdf - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ah I love Science.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Very interesting is this. wonder how long they can keep it alive."
For Millennia, apparently. - awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I'd rather not have my house be a biohazard zone when my hard drive breaks.
- gamabunta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Imagine if the new P2P involved walking around and coughing on each other.
Enough to keep me away.
/sarcasm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The odds of receiving a virus won't be in our favor, unfortunately.
- TheHappyRobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"sorry, my homework evolved..."
- jackyyll, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Sounds interesting. It'd be cool if they made Bacteria Based Hard Drives. Could probably store TB's of data in microscopic sizes, that will last forever. The future is here!
- jthebrain5, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Didn't it say each bacterium could hold 2 megabits(1.6 million Roman letters)? I'd imagine they could use more than one at a time.
- streak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Not just corrupted. Deleted. The bacteria will grow faster without the custom DNA. As soon as one individual in the population deletes it (which happens at low frequency), it will start to out-grow the remaining population. With the short generation time of bacteria, it won't take long for the deleted strain to swamp out the original. Information that will survive in these bacteria for millennia? A sucker is born every minute!
- h4mx0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4My last will will be written within me. Oh damn, that would confuzzle some of the people eager to read the will. Gotta get at my bacteria first!
- streak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3to a biologist, it sounds really obvious and really lame, because they haven't solved the problem of the information being deleted as the bacteria are propagated.
- crashnburn275, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The information would likely be stored in non-coding regions of the bacterial genome, so there will be little selection pressure to preserve the original sequence in an absolutely pristine way. Therefore the bacteria must be slow replicating and resistant to mutation. Certain types of bacteria can live millions of years, but I'm not sure how tolerant those species would be to the stresses of lab technique associated with the information transfer.
I like biology :D - streak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As alluded to in the article, "evolution" is a serious pitfall for this technology. If the bacteria don't actually need the custom DNA for their own survival -- for example even if it only very slightly impairs growth by adding to the amount of DNA that must be replicated with each generation -- then the bacterial population will naturally delete the information over (possibly a very short) time and yield a "fitter" population of bacteria that no longer carries the custom DNA. The fact that DNA has information coding capacity is not at all new.
- jerryparid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yes; you could probably use bacterias for unlimited storage for unspecified amount of time, but how are you going to read the date?
- Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The bacteria may survive forever, your data however, won't. Even frozen bacteria will collect damage due to ionizing radiation, and the first freezer failure will cause a disk crash.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3oh yippee. now not only will we have computer viruses, but people will hack your computer and send you real virus codons so that your stick of bacteria RAM becomes a bioterrorism plant instead.
- Smills, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why is jthebrain being dugg down, what he says is correct. They said 2 mega bits, not 1.6, and they almost certainly would use more than one at once...
- supperman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can preserve the data if you collect their spores (for bacteria that sporulate of course). Even bacteria in glycerol stock stored at -70/80C can survive for long periods.
- semiotix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm going to upload my undergrad senior project onto a bacterium and let it evolve into a Ph.D. thesis.
- RoshanK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That article was from 2003 though.
- tektalk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This may be the best solution to conceal all your pr0n.
- Trogdor420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wouldn't the logarithmic reproductive rate and subsequent mutations in bacteria cause the data to corrupt over time? I dunno' I didn't RTFA.
- oskite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of the later books of the Ender series. There's a whole planet of species that communicate by sending viruses to eachother.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh darn... I can't remember where I left my bacteria.
- naing_oo_1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sounds really cool
- Hayaemsay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That of course would be the major problem since bacteria reproduce every 20 minutes in the right conditions. You'd end up reading something along the lines of chatspeak.
- finfo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6This was already dug recently.
http://digg.com/general_sciences/Storing_data_in_living_organisms - mjpatey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can hear it now... "my files are infected"... "my backup drive died..." ;-)
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So would anti-bacterial soap be the method used to low-level format?
- lodwar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do I Hear ,Intelligent design,Hmmm
- slapout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, if you want to permanently delete your data, you use what....Lysol?
- thomashauk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Umm given a bit on the latest hide dives is only 1000 atoms or so... might be a bit bulky...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I remember when watching TSS about hiding your data in the door.
Don't Digg me down if you think TSS had the best tips with video footage. - Toddbrew1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dig down for being a pussy. Don't make me fart and reformat your hardrive.
- mraustin1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This reminds me of a StarTrek episode where aliens of the past input some pattern into a whole bunch of lifeform's genetic makeup to create a "program."
Cool episode, anyone? - crash128, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am so in. This means I could, like, program a bacteria with the best lines of David Hasselhoff. Then, get a ticket for that Virgin space travel thing and release them into space, with the possibility that they would land on an inhabitable planet someday, and a few billion years later, taking evolution into account, Hasselhoff would LIVE ON! Would actually be part of their dna. Whoa. Knight Rider lives on.
Nice article...liked it - jono10, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0That's what I thought, ironic that the sexual organ of the female has lots of bacteria, good and bad types, you could store it at the source.
- coffeebot, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1damm, my bacterium just got a virus
- brox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1"The bacteria ate my homework..."
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4If it came from a PDF, I'd rather read the blogspam.
- nerditup, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2ya dumb baaatttttchhhh
- aibotca, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Very interesting, reminds me of some sci-fi shows/movies I saw where they (spys) would store 'secret information' of an enemy in their DNA or cells.
'Want more permanent storage?', More permanent than HDD? Bacteria are not immortal ... I don't think I will be trusting my computer data with/inside something that can kick the bucket fast like Bacteria though ^^.
The Japanese are sure making very much technological advances these days when it comes to electronics. -
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