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07-15-2017, 03:43 AM
Scientists just fit a GIF onto DNA, which might be the most important thing to ever happen to GIF-kind
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GIFs are the fundamental building blocks of our digital existence. Whether they are in texts, tweets, or articles, GIFs are **w a staple of how we communicate in the modern world.
But **w GIFs are making their way to a new frontier: scientists have finally figured out how to store and retrieve them from bacterial DNA.
SEE ALSO: A new video shows you exactly what it looks like when DNA replicates (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/watch-dna-replicate-on-video/)
Researchers at Harvard Medical School used CRISPR (http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/gene-editing-people/), a new, incredibly precise and relatively cheap gene sequencing tool, to encode Eadweard Muybridge's 19th Century animation of a running horse, essentially the world's first GIF, inside bacterial DNA. (Writers **te: NyanCat would have been our choice.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/14/scientists-store-play-gifs-on-dna/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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GIFs are the fundamental building blocks of our digital existence. Whether they are in texts, tweets, or articles, GIFs are **w a staple of how we communicate in the modern world.
But **w GIFs are making their way to a new frontier: scientists have finally figured out how to store and retrieve them from bacterial DNA.
SEE ALSO: A new video shows you exactly what it looks like when DNA replicates (http://mashable.com/2017/06/15/watch-dna-replicate-on-video/)
Researchers at Harvard Medical School used CRISPR (http://mashable.com/2015/11/05/gene-editing-people/), a new, incredibly precise and relatively cheap gene sequencing tool, to encode Eadweard Muybridge's 19th Century animation of a running horse, essentially the world's first GIF, inside bacterial DNA. (Writers **te: NyanCat would have been our choice.) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/14/scientists-store-play-gifs-on-dna/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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