{"id":122764,"date":"2021-05-21T09:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/music-stored-in-dna"},"modified":"2021-05-21T09:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T16:24:04","slug":"music-stored-in-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/music-stored-in-dna","title":{"rendered":"Music stored in DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/music-stored-in-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What is the best way to preserve music for future generations to enjoy? Store it in DNA, of course.<\/p>\n<p>That is exactly what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twistbioscience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twist Biosciences<\/a>, which pioneers high-quality DNA synthesis, has facilitated in collaboration with the University of Washington and Microsoft. Two iconic performances \u2013 from the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, one Deep Purple\u2019s playing of Smoke on the Water, and Tutu by Miles Davis, have been \u2018encoded onto DNA and read back with 100 percent accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary music composer and producer, Quincy Jones, said it \u201cabsolutely makes my soul smile\u201d to know that the \u201cbeauty and history of the Montreux Jazz Festival\u201d has been preserved in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 What is the best way to preserve music for future generations to enjoy? Store it in DNA, of course. That is exactly what Twist Biosciences, which pioneers high-quality DNA synthesis, has facilitated in collaboration with the University of Washington and Microsoft. Two iconic performances \u2013 from the iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, one Deep [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}