12-07-2017 19:00 via theguardian.com

Scientists encode movie into DNA in first step to ‘molecular recorders’

Transfer of Eadweard Muybridge’s galloping horse opens possibility of using living cells to store information His groundbreaking photos showed life in motion, from cantering bison to leapfrogging boys, and settled an argument that had long divided trainers and riders: do all four hooves of a racehorse ever leave the floor at once?Now, more than a century later, the stills and animations of Eadweard Muybridge, the eccentric Englishman and father of the motion picture, have had a modern make
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