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Open Access and DNA Storage

May 19, 2007

In the latest post at the Evilutionary Biologist, blogger John Dennehy urges readers to sign the Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the United States.

And if open-source science doesn't move you, scroll down a bit for Dennehy's post on DNA data storage and the concept of encoding messages in DNA sequence for future reference. Could this kind of storage technology one day replace CDs, DVDs, and the like?

 

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