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It's A Small World - In a Petri Dish
Posted by Ernest Miller on Thursday, January 09 @ 10:52:24 EST Copyright
The New Scientist reports that scientists have successfully encoded and stored the lyrics of "It's A Small World" in the DNA of bacteria like E. coli and Deinococcus radiodurans and successfully retrieved it after 100 generations (Data stored in multiplying bacteria). Indeed,
The latter is especially good at surviving extreme conditions, says [information technologist Pak Chung Wong, of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington State]. It can tolerate high temperatures, desiccation, ultraviolet light and ionising radiation doses 1000 times higher than would be fatal to humans.
However, since "a millilitre of liquid can contain up to billion bacteria," the potential copyright liability is unlimited.
 
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