ollie palmerIncredible new article in Nature: “A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA” - although can’t help but think this is great fodder for conspiracy theorists…“so-called ‘junk DNA’ in the human genome is really encrypted information planted by ______” etc.
A biological camera that captures and stores images directly into DNA - Nature Communications
DNA data storage has gained recent interest due to the high information density of DNA. Here, the authors have developed a method to directly capture information in the form of light and encode it into DNA via bacteria, analogous to a digital camera.