Using CRISPR, researchers encoded five frames of a galloping horse in a 36-by-26-pixel GIF into the DNA of bacteria. The images were then decoded from later generations of bacteria. What movie do you want recorded into the DNA of your cells? I want the movie Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle recorded into my brain cells and I want the movie Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi recorded into the DNA of bacterial cells in my POOP because I really HATE that movie!

>>213674155 (OP)
really? does that mean the core mechanic of assassins creed is actually possible?

>>213674155 (OP)
In less than 20 years time we'll all bear witness to hitherto unfathomable horrors of genetic manipulation wrought upon humanity

>>213674202
I don't play video games.

>>213674237
Idk, I'd take biobabies as storage units. I've got a lot of porn I'd like to store and saving it to someone's body would be hilarious, in a cosmic sort of way.

>>213674155 (OP)
>Using CRISPR, researchers encoded five frames of a galloping horse in a 36-by-26-pixel GIF into the DNA of bacteria
Why

>>213674155 (OP)
Let's say I have my favorite movie engraved in my DNA, how can I read it? Or is it playing on a loop in my brain? How does that work?

>>213674759
>>213674760
DNA holds 4 characters instead of 1 and 0 for digital so you could have significantly more dense information storage

Second decade of the 21st Century.
Corporations rule.
The world is threatened by a new plague: NAS
Nerve Attentuation Syndrome, fatal, epidemic, its cause and cure are unknown.
The corporations are opposed by the LoTeks, a resistance movement risen from the streets: hackers, data-pirates, guerilla fighters in the Info Wars.
The corporations defend themselves.
They hire the Yakuza, the most powerful of all crime syndicates.
They sheath their data in black ice, lethal viruses waiting to burn the brains of intruders.
But the LoTeks wait in their strongholds, in the old city cores, like rats in the walls of the world.
The most valuable information must sometimes be entrusted to mnemonic couriers, elite agents who smuggle data in wet-wired brain implants.

>you watched a movie on a bacteria?