Scientists just fit a GIF onto DNA, which might be the most important thing to ever happen to GIF-kind

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.

SEE ALSO: A new video shows you exactly what it looks like when DNA replicates

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...

More about Science, Biology, Dna, Crispr, and Science

COntributer : Mashable http://ift.tt/2tSDfUT

Exhibit rare genuine handcrafted multi-ethnic products of the people in Island of Borneo!