{"id":24453,"date":"2016-04-08T13:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-retrieved-them"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:32:08","slug":"scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-retrieved-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-retrieved-them","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Stored These Images in DNA\u2014Then Flawlessly Retrieved Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-retrieved-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who needs memory cards when you have DNA? A team of scientists has been able to store images within the life-defining molecules then retrieve them perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Washington have been working out how to take digital files and convert them into strings of DNA that can be easily read back. Luis Ceze, one of the researchers, explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/07\/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly\/\" target=\"_blank\">a press release<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLife has produced this fantastic molecule called DNA that efficiently stores all kinds of information about your genes and how a living system works \u2014 it\u2019s very, very compact and very durable. We\u2019re essentially repurposing it to store digital data \u2014 pictures, videos, documents \u2014 in a manageable way for hundreds or thousands of years.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-then-flawlessly-r-1769813543\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-stored-these-images-in-dna-the...1769813543<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who needs memory cards when you have DNA? A team of scientists has been able to store images within the life-defining molecules then retrieve them perfectly. Researchers from the University of Washington have been working out how to take digital files and convert them into strings of DNA that can be easily read back. Luis [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62104,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions\/62104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}