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September 29, 2011 07:14 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O2DJuM8F7Zk/encoding-text-with-gm-bacteria.html
Encoding text with GM bacteria
Science Now reports on a project from David Walt (Tufts) and George Whitesides (Harvard) to come up with a steganographic text-encoding scheme that uses bacteria to encode messages and selective antibiotics to reveal them. It was conceived of in response to a DARPA challenge to devise non-electrical text-encoding, but its applications include adding text-based information [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/O2DJuM8F7Zk/encoding-text-with-gm-bacteria.html
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