You had me at "naked mole rat".
[snip]
"The team used
a peristaltic pump combined with pressure filters to grab samples
of naked mole
rat DNA for five to 20 minutes"
You had me at "naked mole rat".
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 03:55:47 +0000 (UTC)
danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
[snip]
"The team used a peristaltic pump combined with pressure filters to
grab samples of naked mole rat DNA for five to 20 minutes"
You had me at "naked mole rat".
Seriously. Of all the animals to study, why that one? How about city
rats, of which there are billions and whose DNA might be interesting.
The obvious next step is to create a device that can identify you by
your DNA capture, which they get via a sample of your exhalation. When
that happens, the days when we worried about our smartphones tracking
us (or cookies, for F's sake) will seem quaint by comparison.
Hello autocratic dystopia!
where urban rats live. And as NMRs live some 30 years and are more or
less immune to cancer, their DNA might be very interesting.
Hello autocratic dystopia!
Remember audio ads addressing passers-by by name in public places in "Minority Report"? (Implied retinal, not DNA, ID though)
Implied retinal, not DNA, ID though
search for any single thing on Amazon these days and those ads will
follow you around the web for weeks
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