Forget those cold gravestones, now you can get your human DNA bonded within that of a tree courtesy of Biopresence. Dubbed as ‘Living Memorials’, the company has figured out a way to encode human DNA underneath the DNA of a plant cell without damaging it genetically.
Unfortunately for us, you can’t have one for now until the company is operational. Meanwhile, you can catch a glimpse at the Science Museum in London till mid 2005.
If you were a tree, what tree would you be?
Being such an absurd question, I always figured once I got rich and famous and Barbara Walters asked it of me, I would answer with the appropriately absurdist, “a toiletry.” However, not only is the question no longer absurd, it
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