viral data storage: harvard scientists encode a movie in bacterial DNA

viral data storage: harvard scientists are trying to find new ways to store our data, as usage grows substantially every day, and they have just revealed a movie that is …literally viral. consisting of just five frames, this movie has been encoded into bacterial DNA and it could revolutionize the digital world. to do so, they have taken eadweard muybridge’s ‘horse in motion’—one of the first animated stop-motion films ever made—and instead of capturing it on photographic plates, it is now set within DNA. Click the picture for more.