Video in DNA? Geneticists Play Around with Genes
Why? Because they can. Harvard geneticists embedded video in the DNA of living bacteria cells.
By the way, when the modified bacteria divided and reproduced, the videos were present in their offspring.
Okay, there are plenty of potential applications for this technology, according to The Guardian: Living cells could also record information about what's happening around them, whether that's pollution in soil or chemical changes in bodily fluids.
This work is fascinating and groundbreaking. It also illustrates how scientific research such as gene editing via CRISPR can go off in unexpected directions.
What might be the ramifications of research like this?
By the way, when the modified bacteria divided and reproduced, the videos were present in their offspring.
Okay, there are plenty of potential applications for this technology, according to The Guardian: Living cells could also record information about what's happening around them, whether that's pollution in soil or chemical changes in bodily fluids.
This work is fascinating and groundbreaking. It also illustrates how scientific research such as gene editing via CRISPR can go off in unexpected directions.
What might be the ramifications of research like this?
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