Jan 17, 2025
An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, media & arts, robotics/AI
As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. After all, DNA is nature’s way of storing data. It encodes genetic information and determines the blueprint of every living thing on earth.
And DNA is at least 1,000 times more compact than solid-state hard drives. To demonstrate just how compact, researchers have previously encoded all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, 52 pages of Mozart’s music, and an episode of the Netflix show “Biohackers” into tiny amounts of DNA.
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