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kottke.org posts about Christian Bok

DNA poetry

Poet Christian BΓΆk wants to compose a poem and encode it into the DNA of the Deinococcus radiodurans bacteria β€” “the most radiation-resistant organism known”.

He wants to inject the DNA with a string of nucleotides that form a comprehensible poem, and he also wants the protein that the cell produces in response to form a second comprehensible poem.

AGGCGT GCCACC AAT
TCT TACC GATTT CT
CA CTCTAG ACC CTG
AGCCCA CGC GGTTCA

(via mr)