{"id":199671,"date":"2024-11-18T03:45:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-new-dna-printing-technique-could-revolutionize-how-we-store-data"},"modified":"2024-11-18T03:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T09:45:17","slug":"a-new-dna-printing-technique-could-revolutionize-how-we-store-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/a-new-dna-printing-technique-could-revolutionize-how-we-store-data","title":{"rendered":"A New DNA-Printing Technique Could Revolutionize How We Store Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-dna-printing-technique-could-revolutionize-how-we-store-data2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they\u2019ve got nothing on nature\u2019s own version \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/here-s-why-dna-could-eventually-replace-hard-drives\">DNA<\/a>. A new technique for writing data to DNA works like a printing press and makes it easy enough that anyone could do it.<\/p>\n<p>Writing data to DNA usually involves synthesizing strands one letter at a time, like threading beads onto a string. That\u2019s obviously a very slow process, especially when there can be billions of those letters, or bases, in a given DNA sequence.<\/p>\n<p>But the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/dna-printing-press-could-quickly-store-mountains-data\">DNA printing press<\/a> drastically speeds the process up. The team created a set of 700 DNA bricks, each containing 24 bases, that work like movable type pieces. These can be arranged into a desired order and then used to \u2018print\u2019 their data onto DNA template strands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As efficient as electronic data storage systems can be, they\u2019ve got nothing on nature\u2019s own version \u2013 DNA. A new technique for writing data to DNA works like a printing press and makes it easy enough that anyone could do it. Writing data to DNA usually involves synthesizing strands one letter at a time, like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199671","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}