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		<title>Scientists store data in bacteria</title>
		<description>Discuss Scientists store data in bacteria</description>
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			<title>bobjohn9995 says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15567</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This probably won't work. I am a Med school student and have worked with bacteria alot. Bacteria have a high mutation rate. If you store data on there DNA it will mutate and corrupt there files. They should use a more conserved region of the cell such as the membrane.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>bobjohn9995</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:25:37 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Chug says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15448</link>
			<description><![CDATA[@ yourma2000 Is that the university of poor science? Molecular biology 101: DNA is made up of nucleic acids. Peptides and proteins are made up of amino acids. Any plasmid or chromosomal DNA may be recovered easily, modified, ligated, cut and pasted and reintroduced into a new competent cell - its not difficult to do. Technically its old news and has been done decades ago. I hope your Laboratory head doesnt see your post or you might be fired. @ thomasg Petri dishes are for selection - grab one of those cells and throw it into TB media in a few shaking flasks and you can grow a kilo of cells overnight.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Chug</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:41:21 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Abdussamad says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15430</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This reminds me of the very first episode of star trek enterprise. They show data stored in a klingon's cells.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Abdussamad</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:46:43 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>yourma2000 says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15414</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I'm actually a Microbiologist at university, DNA has extremely long sequences of amino acids reaching into the millions and despite being able to fit into a human body cell or bacterium, each DNA strand is nearly 2 metres long. I can imagine storing data in DNA providing mass storage capabilities but the problem is keeping the DNA in conditions in which it can survive corruption, also if DNA was to be used as a storage option then it would be like a DVDr or CDr, one write and no rewrites as it would but impossible to change the amino acid sequences in the DNA without damaging it.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>yourma2000</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:42:35 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>thomasg says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15379</link>
			<description><![CDATA[It seems great, but when you think about it, it would take a ton of petri dishes to grow a gram of bacteria. Under ideal conditions in the lab you could get maybe 50 mg of E. coli on each one. So you're talking 20 bare minimum, probably way more than that.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thomasg</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:19:24 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Reavenk says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15354</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Saturday Morning Breakfast did a piece on this a while back. http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2122]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Reavenk</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:03:42 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>thetruth says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15343</link>
			<description><![CDATA[900,000 GB, then. Or 900 TB.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>thetruth</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:20:57 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Warhead says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15339</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Man, this sentence made my day! :D]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Warhead</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:43:31 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Jaberwocky says:</title>
			<link>http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21687-scientists-store-data-in-bacteria#comment-15327</link>
			<description><![CDATA[hang on a moment.Just going to insert this 5 week old piece of toast into my computer.I need to back up the hard drive.! :D]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jaberwocky</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:51:26 +0100</pubDate>
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