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Science can be rather disheartening.
You sidle up to a potential lover and you're told there's no chemistry. You want to make yourself beautiful for the next potential lover and physics makes your eyes resemble pig buttocks.
And yet, just occasionally, scientific exploration of our biology can turn up a helpful hint that lifts us from our daily pall.
Indeed, my all-too-rare reading of Science magazine has turned up something that for you will be peace of mind and for Amazon will surely be the next great business segment.
For instead of shoving your data onto a hard drive or, perish the pain, into the cloud, you should stick it in some DNA.
I know this sounds complicated, and it is. However, just one teeny milligram of DNA could apparently encode all of the books in the Library of Congress and still have room for all your dog and baby pictures.
You could use your own DNA, of course. But that presents all the problems of human nature. You know, moodiness, changeability, and vast, eternal instability. Ours are soft cells.
However, a team of hardy scientists led by Harvard's George Church, has started to create synthetic DNA that is sturdier.
This cell-free DNA is ejected from an inkjet printer onto a small glass c... [Read more]
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