One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data

700 terabytes in a single gram of DNA. One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. Storing data in your skin would be a fantastic way of transferring data . A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.Treats DNA as just another digital storage device. just as if you were sequencing the human genome.Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time. DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.Church and Kosuri’s case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA.

700 terabytes in a single gram of DNA. One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. Storing data in your skin would be a fantastic way of transferring data .  A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.Treats DNA as just another digital storage device. just as if you were sequencing the human genome.Scientists have been eyeing up DNA as a potential storage medium for a long time. DNA can survive for hundreds of thousands of years in a box in your garage.Church and Kosuri’s case, they have successfully stored around 700 kilobytes of data in DNA.  
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