London Aquarium director Foster Archer said he expected the biologically inspired fish to be popular with visitors.

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The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.

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The NIH and National Science Foundation have recently released a joint solicitation encouraging proposals at the intersection of biology and the physical sciences and engineering, in areas such as biological computing and biologically-inspired materials.

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