Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
Posted by admin in Future, Science on 11. Jan, 2011 | 0 Comments
Biostorage: Storing Bytes in Bacteria Just one gram of bacteria could store as much information as 450 2,000-gigabyte hard drives in its DNA, a Hong Kong research team says. E. coli gets a bad rap – probably due to the violent illness it induces – but a group of Chinese University students in Hong Kong [...]
Zombie DNA Long Thought Dormant Can Rise to Cause Health Problems
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 21. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Zombie DNA Some of that DNA is dead. And some could be undead. Perhaps the only thing scarier than the living dead is finding out that they’re already inside the house. Geneticists recently found that non-coding genes — some of the many dotting the human genome — can rise from the dead. When they do [...]
Dattoos would be the ultimate user/machine interface
Posted by admin in Future on 05. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
Dattoos would be printed onto the user’s skin, and would identify the user via their DNA Five years ago, Frog Design founder Hartmut Esslinger envisioned a technology that “could influence notions of community, identity, and connectivity with minimal impact on the physical environment.” Using an online design portal, users would select and try out a [...]
World’s First DNA-Based Logic Gates Could Lead to Injectable Bio-computers
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 03. Jun, 2010 | 0 Comments
DNA Using DNA-based logic gates that behave like their electronic equivalent, we could someday engineer complex injectable computers that could monitor and treat our bodies from the inside We’ve got computers that run on a single iodine molecule and transistors made of just a handful of atoms, so why not create electronic components out of [...]
First truly synthetic organism created using four bottles of chemicals and a computer
Posted by admin in Medicine, Science on 21. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Scientists call it ‘the first self-replicating species we’ve had on the planet whose parent is a computer If figuring out how to quickly sequence genomes was but the first small step for genetics, Craig Venter has gone ahead and made a giant leap for the discipline. The J. Craig Venter Institute announced today that [...]
