AlexH

Something I worry about is the archiving of my data.  We take a lot of pictures with Tracy’s SLR, and also some movies with our DV cam, and currently it’s backed up on a hard drive, and to DVD.  But that’s still quite fragile, and I’d like to make sure our data could be preserved for future generations.  Could this be a solution to the problem?

Scientists: Data-storing bacteria could last thousands of years

Keio University Institute for Advanced Biosciences and Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus announced the development of the new technology, which creates an artificial DNA that carries up to more than 100 bits of data within the genome sequence, according to the JCN Newswire.

The universities said they successfully encoded “e= mc2 1905!” — Einstein’s theory of relativity and the year he enunciated it — on the common soil bacteria, Bacillius subtilis.

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