I don't know quite what to make of this 'New Yorker' article - http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2014/05/object-of-interest-the-twice-forbidden-fruit.html - I think some things were lost/confused in the relating and retelling of the story.
"He (Joe Davis) plans to use synthetic biology to insert a DNA-encoded version of Wikipedia into the apple and create a living, literal tree of knowledge..." Anybody know what the "four thousand year old strain of apple" might be? Nice picture of Cox Orange Pippin at the top... David Doud grower, IN - petal fall -
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