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jyh from VA is reading whatever he feels like September 23, 2012 - 5:55pm

A man wrote a poem into a protein. Then he spliced that protein into a microbe. Then that microbe altered the function of an E.Coli specimen. The alphabet is some kind of cipher or analog to the chemical composition of the proteins involved, meaning this is really less about poetry and more about programmin biological activity. Either way, it's weird enough to mention.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2011/04/the-xenotext-works/