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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: 2) by bzipitidoo on Friday December 21 2018, @01:00PM (1 child)
His immune system quickly spotted the foreign DNA and destroyed it. The End.
If he wanted attention, he got that. There doesn't seem anything to discover from this stunt. As to his choice of information, it seems calculated for maximum attention. Wanted religious and scientific people to notice.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday December 21 2018, @03:00PM
Or the DNA during fragmentation gets picked up by a satellite and incorporated into a replicating pattern. Which would be a nice virus he created.
This sig for rent.