Media Experiment
In 2017, Harvard scientists encoded a moving image gif of Muybridge’s horse experiment into the DNA of a living cell. Where, as The New York Times explains, ‘it can be retrieved at will and multiplied indefinitely as the host divides and grows. The advance, reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature by researchers at Harvard Medical School, is the latest and perhaps most astonishing example of the genome’s potential as a vast storage device.’