{"id":158612,"date":"2023-02-20T22:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/researchers-store-computer-operating-system-and-short-movie-on-dna"},"modified":"2023-02-20T22:24:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T04:24:26","slug":"researchers-store-computer-operating-system-and-short-movie-on-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/researchers-store-computer-operating-system-and-short-movie-on-dna","title":{"rendered":"Researchers store computer operating system and short movie on DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-store-computer-operating-system-and-short-movie-on-dna2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape can handle, a problem that has scientists turning to nature\u2019s age-old solution for information-storage\u2014DNA.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study in <i>Science<\/i>, a pair of researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) show that an algorithm designed for streaming video on a cellphone can unlock DNA\u2019s nearly full storage potential by squeezing more information into its four base nucleotides. They demonstrate that this technology is also extremely reliable.<\/p>\n<p>DNA is an ideal storage medium because it\u2019s ultra-compact and can last hundreds of thousands of years if kept in a cool, dry place, as demonstrated by the recent recovery of DNA from the bones of a 430,000-year-old human ancestor found in a cave in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanity may soon generate more data than hard drives or magnetic tape can handle, a problem that has scientists turning to nature\u2019s age-old solution for information-storage\u2014DNA. In a new study in Science, a pair of researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) show that an algorithm designed for streaming video on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,41,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158612","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}