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  Anonymous Coward, Feb 4th, 2013 @ 5:50pm

  
  

  How about mining gold with bacteria, or making clothes with bacteria?
  
  One can store data on bacteria DNA and manufacture clothes or bags to transport it.
  https://biocouture.posterous.com/biocouture-on-tedcom
  
  Now imagine some mad scientist producing a bacteria that can produce gold and store the geolocation of it in its DNA LoL
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupriavidus_metallidurans
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delftia_ acidovorans
  
  Another mad idea is having the research about human vision integrated into DNA storage, imagine you tap into the optic nerve transforming the eyeballs into spycams and store those movies in your own DNA.
  
  Now that would incredible :)
  
  Sorry just having fun and letting the imagination go wild.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Feb 4th, 2013 @ 8:04pm

  
  

  read & write speeds for DNA are horribly slow!

  DNA is good for archiving, but it won't replace SSD or hard drives (or even tape drives) anytime soon........

   

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  McCrea (profile), Feb 4th, 2013 @ 11:09pm

  
  

  When is a virus most like a virus?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Feb 4th, 2013 @ 11:31pm

  
  

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  When it has a virus code written in its DNA?

   

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  btrussell (profile), Feb 5th, 2013 @ 6:32am

  
  

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  Which includes DRM

   

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  Rekrul, Feb 5th, 2013 @ 12:37am

  
  

  Am I missing something here? DNA is organic matter. Organic matter degrades over time unless it's part of a living organism.

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Feb 5th, 2013 @ 6:59am

  
  

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  Yes it's very friable, but you rely on the fact you can have many, many copies for parity checking.

   

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  Michael Ho (profile), Feb 5th, 2013 @ 10:54am

  
  

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  not sure where "Organic matter degrades over time unless it's part of a living organism" comes from... because it's not entirely true. Some organic matter is quite stable, depending on the conditions, and it doesn't "need" to be part of a living cell. This is why we can recover DNA from (dead) fossils that is tens of thousands of years old... and why DNA is a reasonably good choice for molecular storage.

   

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  Jollygreengiant (profile), Feb 5th, 2013 @ 7:02am

  
  

  Covert data transfer

  Did you know that during sex the man transfers approximately 1.6TB of data?

   

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  Anonymous Coward, Feb 5th, 2013 @ 9:29am

  
  

  Re: Covert data transfer

  That is per unit(spermatozoon) or the whole bunch?
  
  Not counting of course other fluids.

   

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  McFortner (profile), Feb 5th, 2013 @ 9:53am

  
  

  Human DNA

  Scientists decoded human DNA and found a message: "We apologize for the inconvenience."

   

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  DNY (profile), Feb 5th, 2013 @ 11:31am

  
  

  DNA and encryption

  This somehow reminds me of a former student's science fiction writings, which included a sentient race who knew they were designed, rather than evolved, because their genome and DNA-to-protein mechanisms were based on error correcting codes.

   

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