- Scientists announced yesterday that they successfully converted 739 kilobytes of hard drive data in genetic code and then retrieved the content with 100 percent accuracy.
Not the first time, but certainly the most efficient. This is a huge deal for long term data storage. Here is the Nature article, if you want more detail.
Science is getting pretty damn exciting these days. Good time to be alive.
I know one guy who is using DNA for cryptography. They're working on locks that you will only be able to open by providing the proper sample. I know another guy who is using DNA for biological warfare. they're working on diseases that will only kill you. The terror scenario of course is not being able to kill one person, or one family. It's the ability to kill, say, only Ashekanazi Jews...
Gonna call wasted time on this one. What's the benefit? If anything, it's easier to find a skin flake or a lock of one's hair (Or a saliva sample in more romantic scenarios), than it is to steal a key off of a person. And I at least notice when my keys are gone. Thumb-print locks are already just as uniquely identifying, likely less expensive, easier to maintain, more efficient, and still nowhere near worth it over a metal lock and key.They're working on locks that you will only be able to open by providing the proper sample.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/hacking-... The reason Africans get more sickle-cell anemia is because it's a side-effect of blood evolved to be more resistant to malaria. Some asians flush when they're drunk, others don't. There's all sorts of individuality that has a physiological component.
This has got to be the worst side effect of mapping the genome that I can think of. It never occurred to me how we're doing the supremacists and those inclined to genocides a rather large service. Do you have any links or anything about either of those examples I could read?The terror scenario of course is not being able to kill one person, or one family. It's the ability to kill, say, only Ashekanazi Jews...