Turning DNA into a hard drive

Source: Los Angeles Times

Silicon-based computers are fine for typing term papers and surfing the Web, but scientists want to make devices that can work on a far smaller scale, recording data within individual cells. One way to do that is to create a microsc ...
Full article at: Los Angeles Times  More like this  1 day ago, 12:32am CDT

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Responding to the Challenge that Intelligent Design Lacks a "Mechanism"

Source: Evolution News and Views

Apart from the occasional mutation, we often think of the information in DNA as static, like a read-only CD-ROM. Epigenetics has overturned this idea, but as ENV noted earlier, some scientists are finding they can make DNA more like a rewritable CD-RW ...
Full article at: Evolution News and Views  More like this  4 days ago, 3:28pm CDT

Rewritable memory encoded into DNA

Source: Nature.com

Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA. The arduous work involved in building the system is almost as notable as the achievement itself, says Drew Endy of Stanford University in California ...
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Source: The Scotsman

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