Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria — did your brain just explode? | TechCrunch

Scientists have inserted a GIF of a horse into living bacteria — did your brain just explode? – TechCrunch

In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It’s a weird idea, but scientists have actually been using the genetic wondertool k

via TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/12/harvard-nature-crispr-cas1-cas2-horse-gif/

It’s a weird idea, but scientists have actually been using the genetic wondertool known as CRISPR or “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats” for data storage parlor tricks for some time.