DNA typewriter taps out messages inside cells - Phys.org

While developing a new system for recording within cells, geneticist Jay Shendure and his team decided to give it a test run by using it to encode text. Since their invention relied on a nearly brand-new recording medium, DNA, they wanted to use messages that…

Recording and decoding short digital text messages with DNA Typewriter. a, Base64 binary-to-text was modified to assign 64 NNNGGA barcodes for TAPE-1 to 64 text characters. b, Illustration of the enc… [+7209 chars]

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