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Running ‘Doom’ on E. coli cells… very, very slowly It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game.
It would take nearly 600 years to finish playing this MIT student's iteration of the classic video game.
Released over 30 years ago, the seminal first-person shooter (FPS) is a touchstone classic of video gaming—not only for its influence on the medium, but for inspiring some pretty wild coding schemes. In 1997, Doom ’s creators at iD Software released the game’s original source code for free online, allowing legions of hobbyists the ability to tinker and experiment to their demonslaying heart’s content. Lauren “Ren” Ramlan, an MIT biotechnology PhD student researcher, recently released a paper documenting a truly stomach-churning feat: As highlighted by RockPaperShotgun, she programmed Doom to run on a display made from E. coli cells.
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