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  1. Legion: Skin Deep and why storing information in DNA is awesome and feasible BUT NOT THAT WAY

    So I started reading Legion by Brandon Sanderson and all's fine and dandy until he reached I3, a company that will REVOLUTIONIZE information storage by transfecting human cells with bits of DNA to store information, using a virus.

    And I'm just like, NO NO NO WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.

    For reference, the technology is totally feasible, DNA is just strings of 4 nucleotides, and as such, can totally be used to encode information. Rather like how we have 0 and 1 in transistors, ...

    Updated April 27th, 2015 at 11:34 PM by ratstsrub

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