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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Knowledge in Bacteria

No data-storage method is fool-proof. Bacteria, however, have been passing genetic information from one generation to the next one for at least 3 billion years, and they will most likely still be reproducing when humans are long gone. If we could encode information in their genomes, it would be... Sign in to see full entry.

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