a message for millennia

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For people who want to ensuer their words last for their progeny,japanise scientists have found a way to put a message into genes. A research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in theDNA of bacteria, which unlike most living organisms can survive for millennia in the right conditions. Each hay bacillus bacterium can store two megabits -- the equivalent of 1.6 million Roman letters. the scientists can take out the microscopic implants in a laboratory and read them so they appear as ordinary text.