Bar codes are everywhere. They’re on cereal boxes, paint cans, and even lipsitck. If some researchers have their way, the microscopic equivalent of bar codes could infiltrate the molecular world just as widely.
Five types of bar coding tags with bright silver and dark gold stripes. Each tag’s length is one-twentieth the width of a hair.
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