Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive

db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Next to nothing? It’s DNA. You have DNA and RNA lying around everywhere on the planet. On every square fucking mil or micrometre. The only thing that can go wrong, so to say, is microbial degradation of DNA.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or radiation. Or chemicals.

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Radiation is easy to deal with. You have enclosures. With chemicals I’m quite unsure what you are talking about since technically DNA is a chemical. I’m going to do my original comment a disservice and point out that heat, anything above about 40°c needs to be managed. Though even with this latter issue there are ways to manage coming straight from already existing biological mechanisms.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What DNA currently out there is dynamically rewritable

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All of it? That’s pretty much what viruses do to whatever they manage to infect.

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So a virus can rewrite a cat in to a dog or a giraffe? You’re talking small changes over a long time. A 400TB drive that you can only change 800KB every century or so would be useless.

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    • silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I am unsure of the adjective’s meaning in this context…

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• workgood@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  everything obv. this is a man made horror

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