From: Extropian Agro Forestry Ventures Inc. (megao@sk.sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri Jan 10 2003 - 08:01:33 MST
[Nanotech]
New Scientist - Data stored in multiplying bacteria
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993243
A message encoded as artificial DNA can be stored within the genomes
ofmultiplying bacteria and then accurately retrieved, US scientists have
shown. Their concern that all current ways of storing information, from
paper to electronic memory, can easily be lost or destroyed prompted
them to devise a new type of memory - within living organisms.
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
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