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And we aren't just talking one use here, we're talking REWRITABLE digital storage in our DNA!

It's true, scientists have developed a biological system that can record digital data... biological binary, in other words!

Stanford researchers figured out how to us natural enzymes to create rewritable data storage built directly into living cells' DNA. Holy shizz!

Mainly they use the enzymes to flip DNA sequences back and forth, like a light switch, which can be seen as a binary-like system. If it's one direction, it's a 0, the other, it's a 1. You get it.

This can store up to one bit of data without using ANY power! Plus we can see how many time a cell has doubled.

This could lead to us being able to turn off affected cells, like in the case of cancer. We just need to bump up the storage to a byte -- and that could take at least 10 years.

Ten years to a byte is CRAZY!

Though, this is super interesting. What we're taking from it is that the cells in our body can be turned into an iPod. Right? Riiiiiight?

Ha!

But really, this is a pretty huge discovery and could mean a lot of things for the medical industry.

It just sucks that it's going to take so much time.

[Image via AP Images.]

It's alive...IT'S ALIVE!!!!

Ok, not really but don't tell that to Oxford University!

Researchers at the school want to take the fairy tales of the Pacific Northwest and the Himalayas and make them a reality.

Scientists are examining gathered materials from public and private cryptozoological collections to see if Bigfoot/Yetis evolved from bears or neanderthals or something else.

The research hopes to finally squash criticism against the existence of Bigfoot.

The world may never know if BigFoot exists...but they are still going to try and find out!

Wow!

We recently came across some of the most unusual baby names of 2011, and things got really weird!

The strangest moment we had after going over the list?

Definitely the fact that five girls were named Moo.

It seriously threw off our day.

Here is a snippet of the weirder ones we found:

"Trew, Teejay, Swayze, Stanlee, Prinston, Governor, Fenway, Cypher, Atta, Timberlyn, Sundae, Stoney, Rejoice, Prosperity, Psalms, Mystery, Moo, Island, Imagine, Heavan, Future, Comfort, Brees, Dierra, Treasure, Draper, Strummer, Law, Marcjacob, Mattingly, Life, Marvelous, Brilliant, Cougar, Benjerman, Tomorrow, Tiger, Latina, Tron, Papa, Maxi, Audi, Godswill, Famous, Trek, Courage, Bronco, Tank, Graceland, Eh, Jerzy, Beautiful, Notorious, Innocent, Bates, Capone, Corleone, Juvenal"

You think the parents could've at least spelled of these correctly.

Or maybe that's the point?

Either way we're confused and we feel semi bad for all the Moo's out there.

That isn't going to be fun in middle school for them at all.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt aren't the only ones working on building a little league of their own!!!

33-year-old PLAYA Desmond Hatchett wants a break from his child support payments from the state of Tennessee because he's broker than a JOKE!!!

But then again, having a crew of baby momma's and TWENTY FOUR KIDS will do dat to ya!!

Watch the viddy (above) to get the scoop on the father of the year who is currently incarcerated, but will have to start payin' up when he's released in 2014!!!

Contraception should be achieved because of effort on both the lady's and dude's parts, not just one or the other -- that just isn't fair!

So when we hear that a new gene discovery in Edinburgh might just lead to a form of birth control for me, this makes a LOT of people excited!

They discovered that a gene that is essential for the development of sperm -- called Katniss1 Katnal1. If you block it, it temporarily stops sperm production!

The team then found out that Katnal1 was used to regulate a structure known as microtubules – parts of sperms that needed for support and the acquisition of nutrients.

Basically, those little swimmers can't move through the balls to finish maturation.

This finding is double awesome, too, when you realize that not only could this lead to a pill... but possible solutions for male infertility!

One researcher says:

“As we move towards personalized medicine, comparing DNA sequences of infertile men against gene data provided from studies such as this will help clinicians identify the causes underlying unexplained male infertility. If a genetic fault can be traced to a problem within the supporting cells of the testes rather than the sperm cells then it could be possible to use a gene-therapy approach to replace the faulty copy of the gene and restore fertility.”

So fab!

This is still a ways away, but we're excited about the possibilities, none the less!

Science! Science! Science!

[Image via AP Images.]

SO super sketchy!

Remember that Ukrainian reporter, Vitali Sediuk, who attempted to kiss Will Smith at the red carpet premiere of Men In Black 3 last week??

Well now, it sounds like Will wasn’t his only target of choice!

Sediuk recently creepily admitted his love for 19 year old Selena Gomez, saying:

[Image via WENN.]

Leave it to Japan to invent a phone that you can hug while talking to people.

"I can technically do that with any phone," you say?

Well does your phone vibrate to match the characteristics of the callers voice?

We didn't think so.

It seems kinda crazy and we totally don't want one for Christmas… hint hint.

Check out the video (above) for a close up look at the awesome piece of huggable technology you never knew you wanted (to get us for Christmas).