{"id":28211,"date":"2016-07-23T12:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-work-toward-storing-digital-information-in-dna"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:31:28","slug":"scientists-work-toward-storing-digital-information-in-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/scientists-work-toward-storing-digital-information-in-dna","title":{"rendered":"Scientists work toward storing digital information in DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-work-toward-storing-digital-information-in-dna.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her \u201cdigital attic\u201d\u2014a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and computer science schoolwork from college.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d like to preserve the stuff \u201cas long as I live, at least,\u201d says Strauss, 37. But computers must be replaced every few years, and each time she must copy the information over, \u201cwhich is a little bit of a headache.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It would be much better, she says, if she could store it in DNA\u2014the stuff our genes are made of.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-scientists-digital-dna.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;07-scientists-digital-dna.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her \u201cdigital attic\u201d\u2014a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and computer science schoolwork from college. She\u2019d like to preserve the stuff \u201cas long as I live, at least,\u201d says Strauss, 37. But computers must be replaced every few years, and each time [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,32,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-education","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66809,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28211\/revisions\/66809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}