DNA Data Storage Could Last Thousands Of Years




Scientists create a ‘synthetic fossil’ containing data written in DNA and capable of being preserved for thousands of years.
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A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabytes of data around 700 terabytes in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
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