stackyFACTSYour next thumb drive might just be a petri dish full of stomach bugs. Researchers have successfully encoded a video file into the DNA of living E. coli bacteria, and the organisms passed the data down to their offspring. We are turning one of the most common pathogens into a squishy, replicating flash drive.
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