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Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

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  • Instead of binary data being encoded as magnetic regions on a hard drive platter, strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesized, with each of the bases (TGAC) rep
  • To read the data stored in DNA, you simply sequence it — just as if you were sequencing the human genome — and convert each of the TGAC bases back into binary.
  • It’s also worth noting that it’s possible to store data in the DNA of living cells — though only for a short time.