Scientists have synthesized DNA with encoded texts, images and audio files, much as digital media store data. The researchers were later able to decode the stored information with 100 percent accuracy. Scientists believe that in time, using this method, one gram of artificial DNA could store the data of some 3 million CDs and that all this information could be preserved for hundreds if not thousands of years. Potentially, this system could store the whole world’s digital archive. DNA has thus been dubbed “the ultimate hard drive”.
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 22:25:09 +0000
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