I know, you’re probably thinking the same thing I was. How do you print a book on DNA? What does that even mean?
Asimov Press’ latest anthology features nine essays and three works of science fiction. Embracing the book’s technology theme, we did something very special: With the help of three companies — CATALOG, Imagene, and Plasmidsaurus — we’ve encoded a complete copy of the book into DNA, thus merging bits with atoms.
This is the first commercially-available book to be written in DNA and sold in both mediums; as physical books and nucleic acids. We are deeply grateful to those who helped make it possible.
Also, this process has been done before. George Church at Harvard published his 2012 book Regenesis with DNA, and a group of Cambridge scientists published Shakespeare’s complete sonnets.
I don’t know if this is the coolest or creepiest thing I’ve ever heard about, but I want to know more.