genoma – The Earthian Hivemind

From hard-drive to DNA – the future of IT?

Steph P. Bianchini February 19, 2015 2 Comments

Otherwise said: how to store your (terabyte) data on a DNA string. Amazing, isn’t it? The first time I’ve heard about this deceptively simple idea was last year on the New Yorker, in a article by Andrew Marantz “Petri-Dish Pop“,…
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Science & Spooky Bits

DNA, fossil, genoma, IT, Nature

A busy year for bacteria

Steph P. Bianchini November 15, 2014 2 Comments

This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand of DNA was engineered in a lab, creating an organism with semi-synthetic (“alien”) DNA. And it’s…
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Science & Spooky Bits

bacteria, bioengineering, DNA, E. Coli, exoplanet, genoma, Michael Crichton, mira grant, MIT, Parasite, Prey, Science, space, Space exploration, synthetic biology