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Biohacker Injects Himself With Religious Texts Converted to DNA

posted by mrpg on Friday December 21 2018, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the florida-man,-zat-you? dept.

takyon writes:

High School Student Injects The Book Of Genesis Into His Body

A student has injected himself with the Book of Genesis and the surah Ar-Ra'd (part of the Qur'an) because he "wondered whether it would be possible".

Adrien Locatelli, a high school student in Grenoble, France, decided to inject himself with several religious texts.

"Recent studies have reported that it is possible to convert any type of information into DNA for the purpose of storage," he wrote, publishing his initial results on the Open Science Framework.

"Since it is possible to convert digital information into DNA, I wondered whether it would be possible to convert a religious text into DNA and to inject it in a living being."

Seems like a good origin story for a religious superhero.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @12:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 21 2018, @12:37PM (#777170)

    their people remember the books. Now, people are the books.

    Now if the DNA gets wrapped up in a bacteria or virus, then penicillin and other drugs of the type, would be killing the "word or GOD". Oh the religious wars to flow. Doctors would no long be accused of being "GOD", but now are directly being "Satan" directly opposed to the "wprd pf GOD".

    Oh the mess we make. Also read how tech will end the world: "The Nine Billion Names of God" by Arthur C. Clarke