GIFs are the fundamental building blocks of our digital existence. Whether they are in texts, tweets, or articles, GIFs are now a staple of how we communicate in the modern world.
But now GIFs are making their way to a new frontier: scientists have finally figured out how to store and retrieve them from bacterial DNA.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School used CRISPR, 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 note: NyanCat would have been our choice.) Read more...
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