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Study: Digital information can be stored in DNA
Topic Started: January 25, 2013, 11:31 am (204 Views)
M. Hawbaker
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NEW YORK — It can store the information from a million CDs in a space no bigger than your little finger, and could keep it safe for centuries. Is this some new electronic gadget? Nope. It's DNA.

The genetic material has long held all the information needed to make plants and animals, and now some scientists are saying it could help handle the growing storage needs of today's information society.

Researchers reported Wednesday that they had stored all 154 Shakespeare sonnets, a photo, a scientific paper, and a 26-second sound clip from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. That all fit in a barely visible bit of DNA in a test tube.

The process involved converting the ones and zeroes of digital information into the four-letter alphabet of DNA code. That code was used to create strands of synthetic DNA.

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-science/20130123/US.SCI.DNA.Data/

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M. Hawbaker
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I find this development very interesting, yet somehow disturbing at the same time.
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