While putting the animation on DNA is a feat within itself, impressively (and perhaps more importantly) researchers only made a few errors while sequencing the bacteria's genome to recreate the ...

That means recreating the movie required comparing the DNA from lots of different cells. Here’s the GIF before the insertion into the bacteria and the reconstruction.

The researchers then simply needed to sequence the bacteria's DNA to retrieve the data and reconstruct the animation. Using this method, their reconstruction was 90 percent accurate.

Scientists have inserted a GIF into the DNA of living bacteria, bringing us one step closer to one day embedding information in our own skin. The technique takes advantage of the gene-editing ...

Will the Apple Watch Series 10 or 12 offer handy real-time DNA sequencing? It’s not beyond the realm of possibility, thanks to a series of scientific breakthroughs. And it could revolutionize ...