Scientists have finally figured out how to store and retrieve GIFs from bacterial DNA. ... Scientists just fit a GIF onto DNA, which might be the most important thing to ever happen to GIF-kind.

In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It's a weird idea ...

Scientists figured out a way to insert a GIF into the DNA of a living being—that's right, internet culture is literally becoming a part of our DNA.

And this GIF—only 36 by 26 pixels in size—represents a relatively small amount of information compared to what scientists have so far been able to encode in synthetic DNA.

The five frame GIF of a horse and rider was placed into the live bacteria frame by frame. The researchers then simply needed to sequence the bacteria's DNA to retrieve the data and reconstruct the ...

In a new study published in Nature, a group of scientists at Harvard have successfully stored a GIF— yes, like a moving meme — into live bacteria (E. coli to be specific). It's a weird idea, but ...