{"id":118480,"date":"2021-01-13T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-research-could-enable-direct-data-transfer-from-computers-to-living-cells"},"modified":"2021-01-13T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T02:22:17","slug":"new-research-could-enable-direct-data-transfer-from-computers-to-living-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/new-research-could-enable-direct-data-transfer-from-computers-to-living-cells","title":{"rendered":"New Research Could Enable Direct Data Transfer From Computers to Living Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-could-enable-direct-data-transfer-from-computers-to-living-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is perhaps the hardest part of all DNA storage approaches. If you can get the cells to directly talk to a computer, and interface its DNA-based memory system with a silicon-based memory system, then there are lots of possibilities in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work builds on a CRISPR-based cellular recorder Wang had previously designed for <em>E. coli<\/em> bacteria, which detects the presence of certain DNA sequences inside the cell and records this signal into the organism\u2019s genome.<\/p>\n<p>The system includes a DNA-based \u201csensing module\u201d that produces elevated levels of a \u201ctrigger sequence\u201d in response to specific biological signals. These sequences are incorporated into the recorder\u2019s \u201cDNA ticker tape\u201d to document the signal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis is perhaps the hardest part of all DNA storage approaches. If you can get the cells to directly talk to a computer, and interface its DNA-based memory system with a silicon-based memory system, then there are lots of possibilities in the future.\u201d The work builds on a CRISPR-based cellular recorder Wang had previously designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}