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In the latest attempt to corral society's growing quantities of digital data, Harvard University researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building block of life, and then accurately read back the text.
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C'est une innovation qui pourrait bien changer les habitudes de tous les spectateurs. Imaginée par Christophe Carniel* et Pierre Keiflin, complices depuis vingt ans, Vogo devrait révolutionner notre façon d’assister à une manifestation sportive. Dans les gradins, si le public peut avoir accès aux grands écrans, il va désormais pouvoir revoir l’action de son choix depuis son smartphone ou sa tablette grâce à l’application Vogo. Au ralenti ou à vitesse normale, la séquence en vidéo pourra être visualisée autant de fois que désirée. Surfant sur la tendance hyper-connectée des spectateurs qui n’hésitent pas, aujourd’hui, à utiliser leurs terminaux mobiles durant les matchs, Vogo parie sur un procédé accessible sans limites. Via QRious CODE
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El smartphone modular de Motorola, hasta ahora llamado Project Ara, logrará ser realidad gracias a la impresión 3D y la empresa 3D Systems.
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In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building block of life, and then accurately read back the text.
The experiment, reported Thursday in the journal Science, may point a way toward eventual data-storage devices with vastly more capacity for their size than today's computer chips and drives.
"A device the size of your thumb could store as much information as the whole Internet," said Harvard University molecular geneticist George Church, the project's senior researcher.
In their work, the group translated the English text of a coming book on genomic engineering into actual DNA.
DNA contains genetic instructions written in a simple but powerful code made up of four chemicals called bases: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T).
The Harvard researchers started with the digital version of the book, which is composed of the ones and zeros that computers read. Next, on paper, they translated the zeros into either the A or C of the DNA base pairs, and changed the ones into either the G or T.
Then, using now-standard laboratory techniques, they created short strands of actual DNA that held the coded sequence—almost 55,000 strands in all. Each strand contained a portion of the text and an address that indicated where it occurred in the flow of the book.
In that form—a viscous liquid or solid salt—a billion copies of the book could fit easily into a test tube and, under normal conditions, last for centuries, the researchers said.