{"id":139871,"date":"2022-05-27T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musk-speculates-about-storing-all-human-dna-in-database"},"modified":"2022-05-27T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T20:02:18","slug":"elon-musk-speculates-about-storing-all-human-dna-in-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/elon-musk-speculates-about-storing-all-human-dna-in-database","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Speculates About Storing All Human DNA in Database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-speculates-about-storing-all-human-dna-in-database2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, scientists from the Human Genome Project announced a breakthrough: they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/11006929\/2003-release-international-consortium-completes-hgp\" class=\"\">sequenced the complete human reference genome<\/a>, including all three billion DNA letter, a scientific undertaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genome.gov\/11006929\/2003-release-international-consortium-completes-hgp\" class=\"\">likened at the time<\/a> to landing astronauts on the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>While the reference genome has come under question as of late, with scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techexplorist.com\/first-complete-sequence-human-genome-2\/46495\/\" class=\"\">adding more than two million additional variants<\/a>, it still doesn\u2019t take a whole lot of space to store the entire sequence on a traditional computer.<\/p>\n<p>And now, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/neoscope\/elon-musk-coronavirus-public-health-risk\" class=\"\">once again<\/a> weighing in on an issue outside his expertise, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1529520995672924164\" class=\"\">arguing<\/a> that one could \u201cfit the DNA sequences of all humans alive today in a fairly small data storage system\u201d \u2014 a vaguely terrifying thought coming from the richest man in the world, as if he didn\u2019t already <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/tesla-investor-circus-show\" class=\"\">have enough fires to put out<\/a> and problems to solve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the early 2000s, scientists from the Human Genome Project announced a breakthrough: they had sequenced the complete human reference genome, including all three billion DNA letter, a scientific undertaking likened at the time to landing astronauts on the Moon. While the reference genome has come under question as of late, with scientists adding more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139871","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}