Researchers used synthesized DNA to store and read data
Updated: 2013-01-25 23:41:23
Home Subscribe RSS TWITTER GOOGLE+ FACEBOOK LINKEDIN About Did you know You help us grow by sharing our news and articles with your friends and . associates Robotics Gadgets Tech Bionics Architecture Home Bionics Tech Researchers used synthesized DNA to store and read data By Maja Bosanac 25 January 2013 EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute EMBL-EBI researchers have developed a method to store and read information from deoxyribonucleic acid DNA molecules . The researchers devised a method to convert data into DNA code , and used it to encode 739 kilobytes of data into actual DNA . The information was retrieved with 100 accuracy by sequencing the sample and reconstructing the original . files An estimated worth of digital information in the world is about three zettabytes 3 billion
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