Can DNA be used to store information in future instead of microchips, pendrive and hard disks?

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How to implement boundary conditions in Abaqus contact problems?

Hello I am trying to simulate crawling motion of a bilayer beam using Abaqus. Kind of similar to this: https://youtu.be/os-Z3ucoFpA I am using multiphysics enabled (diffusion, deformation,...

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Do we see connection between climate change and the transmission of coronavirus?

How likely are we to see the infectious disease spread as a result of climate change? How are the communities most at-risk, and how and why both COVID-19 and climate change harms them? Why is it...

09 February 2021 1,459 28 View

I get tumor tissue from the patients after the surgery. How to isolate the top layer of cells from a tumor?

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25 January 2021 6,663 1 View

Which identification method is the most suitable or identification of Vibrio spp.? Molecular or Biochemical?

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03 January 2021 691 7 View

How to decolonize climate change research?

Who has the right to define what is climate change research should be? Who should define the climate change research topic, research questions, and research design? Who should own the climate...

29 November 2020 1,077 12 View

What are the outstanding issues in laser glass?

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Is the future of "Science" or "the Scientific Implications of Climate Change" connected with the US election?

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29 October 2020 8,810 6 View

Why after importing .shp files for microCFD 2D simulation the dimensions of the figure appears to be changed?

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Are you writing your self-resilience stories from the Covid-19 disaster?

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23 March 2020 7,820 38 View

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03 March 2021 8,796 3 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

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Irradiation data for JAPAN?

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How to increase a model accuracy ?

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1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature)?

1. What is the impact of having different scales in a survey? and how can we solve this problem before and after data collection (Literature-based reflection)? Thank you for your time and for...

03 March 2021 2,870 3 View

What degree of missing data in a particular case/participant results in Expectation-Maximisation no longer working?

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02 March 2021 4,362 1 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

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Can NFL theorem be valid in infinite search space in ML?

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01 March 2021 1,189 3 View

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01 March 2021 3,610 1 View

How to address this issue in the analysis of Real-Time PCR results?

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Abhijeet Singh

Yes. It can be done and even there are many experiments have already been performed which stored and regenerated the information from the DNA in microbes. There is a good paper which describes how a video clip was stored and regenerated from DNA.

John N. Carbone

Yes. Microsoft has accomplished this a. Umber of years ago.

Bassam MS Al-Musawi

Interesting topic and actually i was astonished to read the comments. Amazing.