Saturday, August 18, 2012

Harvard cracks DNA storage

Wow:

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram | ExtremeTech: "A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times."