{"id":95081,"date":"2016-06-25T13:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T11:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95081"},"modified":"2016-06-25T13:51:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T11:51:27","slug":"the-incredible-story-of-how-scientists-successfully-uploaded-computer-data-into-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/95081-the-incredible-story-of-how-scientists-successfully-uploaded-computer-data-into-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"The incredible story of how scientists successfully uploaded computer data into bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scientists have discovered how to turn bacteria into tiny hard drives by feeding them strings of human-written data, reports Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These bacteria can also pass on the data to their descendants, which geneticists can then access later.<\/p>\n

While artificially manufactured DNA has existed for decades, the Harvard scientific team wished to see if they could implant this information into a living cell.<\/p>\n

“Rather than synthesizing DNA and cutting it into a living cell, we wanted to know if we could use nature’s own methods to write directly onto the genome of a bacterial cell, so it gets copied and pasted into every subsequent generation” said geneticist Seth Shipman.<\/p>\n

The team found that as long as you introduce a segment of genetic data that looks like viral DNA to a colony of bacteria, the bacteria would gobble it up and incorporate it into their genetic code.<\/p>\n

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