{"id":78592,"date":"2018-05-11T13:42:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T20:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/data-storage-on-dna-where-silicon-valley-meets-biotech"},"modified":"2018-05-15T13:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:12:26","slug":"data-storage-on-dna-where-silicon-valley-meets-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/data-storage-on-dna-where-silicon-valley-meets-biotech","title":{"rendered":"Data storage on DNA: Where Silicon Valley meets biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/data-storage-on-dna-where-silicon-valley-meets-biotech.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the heart of San Francisco\u2019s Mission Bay neighborhood, which not long ago was dirt lots and warehouses, Emily Leproust is cooking up what she \u2014 and $209 million worth of investor cash \u2014 believes is the future of DNA production.<\/p>\n<p>Leproust is CEO of Twist Bioscience, a 5-year-old biotech company striving to make the production of synthetic DNA \u2014 which is used in fragrances, genetically modified foods and pharmaceutical drugs \u2014 cheaper, faster and smaller.<\/p>\n<p>The same lab-manufactured DNA, Leproust hopes, could also transform the way data, from music to medical records, is stored.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Data-storage-on-DNA-Where-Silicon-Valley-meets-12739841.php?utm_content=buffer2b4f7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/business\/article\/Data-storage-on...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the heart of San Francisco\u2019s Mission Bay neighborhood, which not long ago was dirt lots and warehouses, Emily Leproust is cooking up what she \u2014 and $209 million worth of investor cash \u2014 believes is the future of DNA production. Leproust is CEO of Twist Bioscience, a 5-year-old biotech company striving to make the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1506,412,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-food","category-genetics","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78592","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78771,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78592\/revisions\/78771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}