Weird Use of DNA to Print Books
Authors sweat blood and tears to get their books to print. Some even give of themselves literally by adding their DNA to ink used to print the books. Ko-sin Printing of Japan has published autobiographies with title pages printed with DNA-laced ink. They claim that it’s possible to extract DNA directly from the page for future use…cloning, anyone?
John Brownlee of Wired thinks that it might be possible to extract DNA from books written in blood as well, including the one by the rock band KISS. Yuck!!
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Sounds Interesting .
Ptrikha: Which method? The DNA-laced ink or the blood-laced one?
Omg. Gives new meaning to “making copies.” I guess this is the last gasp for printed-books. Something you really can’t duplicate with e-books, unless there’s a digital version, a “digital dna” you can encode “between the lines.”
That’s wild! I can’t even imagine that!