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Man what a confusing title. It's not a single strand of DNA that gets the image information. You get a pool of DNA, which collectively hold the images information.

This is done in a pretty obvious way, each "pixel" is a well in a 96-well e.g. plate and you expose the bacteria in these wells to different light and then the DNA transformation is triggered by the light, then you harvest the DNA from the bacteria and get your image pool library.

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Would be neat if you could somehow splice them into a sequence but I think you'd have some alternating sequences that determine position and sequences that really code information.

yes, I was very impressed by the title, but once I dug into this it was sort of like "well we could probably have accomplished this ~10 years ago when optogenetics first came out". Definitely a situation where branding the title got something "so silly that no one did it before" got it to be noticed.

Assassins Creed is becoming reality soon.

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