Leaving bacterial "fingerprints" on digital devices.

These knitted bacteria also happen to look like fingers.We're usually concerned with issues around leaving "digital" fingerprints (e.g. browsing behavior via cookies). But I couldn't resist posting about new developments in using genetically specific bacterial traces to track your usage of digital devices (well really anything that retains bacteria.) Hmm, does this work on stainless steel?

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