Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

[We Never Know]

Well if and when we wipe out human existence there will be a genome left to find if there is other life out there to find it.

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

"University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years.

The team hope that the crystal could provide a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction thousands, millions or even billions of years into the future, should science allow.

The technology could also be used to create an enduring record of the genomes of endangered plant and animal species faced with extinction.

Eternity crystals

The 5D memory crystal was developed by the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC).

Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information (in the largest size) without loss for billions of years, even at high temperatures. It holds the Guinness World Record (awarded in 2014) for the most durable data storage material.

The crystal is equivalent to fused quartz, one of the most chemically and thermally durable materials on Earth. It can withstand the high and low extremes of freezing, fire and temperatures of up to 1,000°C. The crystal can also withstand direct impact force of up to 10 tons per cm2 and is unchanged by long exposure to cosmic radiation..."

Restoring species

The longevity of the crystals means they will outlast humans and other species. Currently, it's not possible to synthetically create humans, plants and animals using genetic information alone, but there have been major advances in synthetic biology in recent years, notably the creation of a synthetic bacterium by Dr. Craig Venter's team in 2010.

"We know from the work of others that genetic material of simple organisms can be synthesized and used in an existing cell to create a viable living specimen in a lab," says Prof Kazansky.

"The 5D memory crystal opens up possibilities for other researchers to build an everlasting repository of genomic information from which complex organisms like plants and animals might be restored should science in the future allow..."

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years.

phys.org

 

[McBell]

Well if and when we wipe out human existence there will be a genome left to find if there is other life out there.

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

"University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years.

The team hope that the crystal could provide a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction thousands, millions or even billions of years into the future, should science allow.

The technology could also be used to create an enduring record of the genomes of endangered plant and animal species faced with extinction.

Eternity crystals

The 5D memory crystal was developed by the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC).

Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information (in the largest size) without loss for billions of years, even at high temperatures. It holds the Guinness World Record (awarded in 2014) for the most durable data storage material.

The crystal is equivalent to fused quartz, one of the most chemically and thermally durable materials on Earth. It can withstand the high and low extremes of freezing, fire and temperatures of up to 1,000°C. The crystal can also withstand direct impact force of up to 10 tons per cm2 and is unchanged by long exposure to cosmic radiation..."

Restoring species

The longevity of the crystals means they will outlast humans and other species. Currently, it's not possible to synthetically create humans, plants and animals using genetic information alone, but there have been major advances in synthetic biology in recent years, notably the creation of a synthetic bacterium by Dr. Craig Venter's team in 2010.

"We know from the work of others that genetic material of simple organisms can be synthesized and used in an existing cell to create a viable living specimen in a lab," says Prof Kazansky.

"The 5D memory crystal opens up possibilities for other researchers to build an everlasting repository of genomic information from which complex organisms like plants and animals might be restored should science in the future allow..."

Human genome stored on 'everlasting' memory crystal

University of Southampton scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal—a revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years.

phys.org

And in three million years or so there will be a slightly different version of Jurassic Park....

 

[wellwisher]

The genetic material is like the hard drive of a cell. It contains all the data and programs. But like a computer hard drive, all by itself it can do little. If we made the stored DNA it would just sit there. It is not a CPU that can trigger anything.

It needs a mother board and CPU to be of any value. The CPU and mother board of the cell, is what I call the protein grid, which is the cytoplasm as well as organelles like the Mitochondria. The protein grid is sort of the time average protein output from the DNA, based on its differentiation in space and time. This protein gird has all the enzymes, and proportions needed to use the hard drive, to make a duplicate differentiated daughter cell.

Without this duplicate protein grid to begin; mother cell, it is not easy to assure you will get the same cellular differentiation from the DNA. For example, mother liver cells use the same DNA hard drive as mother brain cells , with each having a unique protein grid. One could need to use human stem cells, which are less specific, and then differentiate from there, to make the protein grids of each cell type.

The fertilized ovum is a specialty protein grid, that can drive the entire human genetic differentiation protocol. That would be the best CPU to use to unravel the full hard drive of human DNA, to full assembly, as a little human.

 

[Audie]

And in three million years or so there will be a slightly different version of Jurassic Park....

As in how discourage anyone w interesting post.