Scientists recorded a song on bacteria!

As ridiculous as is sounds, back in 2003 scientists successfully translated the Song “It’s A Small World” into the DNA of the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans! What exactly does this mean? In this project scientists wanted to prove that bacteria, or a living thing, was capable of storing information that could survive a nuclear catastrophe!

Scientists did this in hopes that not all of the information and knowledge we have gained would be destroyed if there were a nuclear war. They purposefully picked the most radiation resistant bacteria to imprint the information on so that data could be kept through “very extreme conditions.” The next step is to encode much larger amounts of information in an even more durable bacteria. I wonder when the first Bacteria USB drives will become available...