-Caveat Lector- way spooky stuff here... Hilary ---------- > From: Hilary A. Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [InTheShadows] Scientists Hide Messages In DNA Microdots > Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 6:03 PM > > From: "Hilary A. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: Dan S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/sc/story.html?s=v/nm/19990609/sc/dna_mi > crodot_1.html > - > Wednesday June 9 2:50 PM ET > > Scientists Hide Messages In DNA Microdots > > By Patricia Reaney > > LONDON (Reuters) - Future spies may need a degree in molecular biology > to keep up with the newest secret coding technique devised by scientists > in the United States. > > James Bond and Mata Hari could have learned a thing or two from > researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. > > They combined DNA technology with the ancient concept of steganography > -- concealing a message within a large number of similar objects-- and > reduced it all to the size of a photographic microdot, similar to the > ones used by German spies during World War Two to transmit secret > messages. > > ``The first part of our steganography is hiding the message in the DNA > and the second part is hiding the existence of the DNA sample containing > the message by shrinking it way down to a small dot and putting it in an > innocuous letter,'' molecular biologist Carter Bancroft said in a > telephone interview. > > To prove the secret message DNA -- or SM DNA -- worked, Bancroft and his > team at Mount Sinai encoded what could have been the most important > message during the microdot era -- ''June 6 invasion: Normandy.'' > > That message was never actually sent as the Germans never discovered the > date or place of the Allied invasion that led to the end of World War > Two. > > ``I composed that message myself in the spirit of the microdot era as > what I felt was probably the most important secret of that time,'' said > Bancroft. > > In a report in the science journal Nature Wednesday, the researchers > described how they used a three-letter code based on DNA for each letter > of the English alphabet and punctuation marks as an encryption key for > the DNA message. > > They hid the SM DNA within human DNA and reduced it to the size of a > typewritten period and pasted it on a letter. > > ``An important basis of our technique is we hide this piece of secret > message DNA so that nobody knows it's there, but the person who is > sending it knows the sequence of DNA at the ends (of the message) and > the person receiving it also knows the sequence,'' said Bancroft. > > The recipient can use standard biochemical techniques to detect and read > the secret message encoded in the SM DNA. > > Bancroft wouldn't speculate on whether future spies will adopt the new > technique but even if they don't he said it could be used to secretly > mark objects or valuable items. > > ``There may well turn out to be other ramifications and uses of it that > will become apparent only after we and other people have explored the > concept,'' he added. > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Campaign 2000 is here! > http://www.onelist.com > Discuss your thoughts; get informed at ONElist. 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