DNA data storage

From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 07:54:06 MST


I've said this for years.
All that "idle" dna in a human or other genome might be how "instinct"
and even
possibly active memory is archived. Nature never wastes resources.

MHC is a crude variant on this storing immune " memory."
The same mechanisms that alter MHC could store vital re-usable
information packets.

Bacteria that have high resistances to heat, radiation would make good
extracorporeal data archives.

Remember that Star Trek episode where all the species from all over the
galaxy raced about
piecing together DNA which when complete was converted by a modern
communications/sensor unit into a full motion video message form a
sender a billion years into the past.

I think we have hit upon a significant and very fundamental technology
to link molecular information to macro information here.

Morris Johnson, Chief Technology Officer
Road 707 South, Box 33, Beaubier, S0C-0H0
and #2 -1st Ave West , Lake Alma (formerly Lake Alma School), S0C-1M0
306-447-4944, megao@sk.sympatico.ca
“manufacturers of the LIFESPAN medical food bar”



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