{"id":25098,"date":"2016-04-27T18:47:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T01:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/genetics-startup-twist-bioscience-is-working-with-microsoft-to-store-the-worlds-data-in-dna"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:10:49","slug":"genetics-startup-twist-bioscience-is-working-with-microsoft-to-store-the-worlds-data-in-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/genetics-startup-twist-bioscience-is-working-with-microsoft-to-store-the-worlds-data-in-dna","title":{"rendered":"Genetics startup Twist Bioscience is working with Microsoft to store the world\u2019s data in DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetics-startup-twist-bioscience-is-working-with-microsoft-to-store-the-worlds-data-in-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Using DNA,] you could fit all the knowledge in the whole world inside the trunk of your car,\u201d Twist Bioscience CEO Emily Leproust told TechCrunch.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twistbioscience.com\/\">Twist<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.twistbioscience.com\/\">Bioscience<\/a>, a startup making and using synthetic DNA to store digital data, just struck a contract with Microsoft and the University of Washington to encode vast amounts of information on synthetic genes.<\/p>\n<p>Big data means business and the company able to gather a lot of it is very valuable to investors and stockholders. But that data needs to be stored somewhere and can cost a lot for the upkeep.<\/p>\n<p>Digital data stored on media also has a finite shelf life. But researchers have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram\">discovered new ways<\/a> to stuff digital information over the last few years \u2013 including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.insomniac.com\/media\/scientists-have-encoded-music-dna\">in our DNA<\/a>, which can last thousands of years intact.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/27\/genetics-startup-twist-bioscience-teams-up-with-microsoft-to-store-the-worlds-data-in-dna\/\">http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/27\/genetics-startup-twist-bios...ta-in-dna\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[Using DNA,] you could fit all the knowledge in the whole world inside the trunk of your car,\u201d Twist Bioscience CEO Emily Leproust told TechCrunch. Twist Bioscience, a startup making and using synthetic DNA to store digital data, just struck a contract with Microsoft and the University of Washington to encode vast amounts of information [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,412,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-genetics","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50694,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098\/revisions\/50694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}