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interesting research project which has been dubbed spam: ‘steganography by printed arrays of microbes’, that uses fluorescing bacteria to convey messages, a kind of living typography as it were…

…scientists have developed fluorescent bacteria that encode secret messages, creating a living invisible ink. Simple messages can be encoded by genetically engineering bacteria to produce fluorescent coloured proteins, then printing them in a grid…

m / 29-09-2011 08:10 - tags: ,  

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