{"id":226341,"date":"2025-12-02T21:15:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/glassed-in-dna-makes-the-ultimate-time-capsule"},"modified":"2025-12-02T21:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T03:15:30","slug":"glassed-in-dna-makes-the-ultimate-time-capsule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/glassed-in-dna-makes-the-ultimate-time-capsule","title":{"rendered":"Glassed-in DNA makes the ultimate time capsule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glassed-in-dna-makes-the-ultimate-time-capsule.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Year 2015 <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-face_with_colon_three\" title=\":3\">face_with_colon_three<\/span> <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>IF YOU must preserve messages for people in the far future to read, Blu-ray discs and USB sticks are no good. For real long-term storage, you want a DNA time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes \u2013 enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare. It\u2019s also incredibly durable: DNA has been extracted and sequenced from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21829234-700-oldest-animal-genome-is-sequenced-from-horse-bone\/\">700,000-year-old horse bones<\/a>. But conditions have to be right for it to last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2015 face_with_colon_three IF YOU must preserve messages for people in the far future to read, Blu-ray discs and USB sticks are no good. For real long-term storage, you want a DNA time capsule. Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes \u2013 enough for all the data held by Google, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226341","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\/226341","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=226341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}