Engineering Living Cells to Remember their Past (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Engineering Living Cells to Remember their Past (1 of 2)

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SCRIBE (Synthetic Cellular Recorders Integrating Biological Events) enables the use of genomic DNA as tape recorders for memorizing event histories in living bacterial populations. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 14 Nov. 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Fahim Farzadfard and Timothy K. Lu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, was titled, "Genomically encoded analog memory with precise in vivo DNA writing in living cell populations."

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