
It's a new world record! Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, George Church and bioengineer Sri Kosuri have successfully managed to store 5.5 petabits of data, which is around 700 terabytes, in just one gram of DNA. The breakthrough science considers DNA like a digital storage device, where strands of DNA that store 96 bits are synthesised, with each of the bases (TGAC) representing a binary value (T and G = 1, A and C = 0), similar to the hard drive storing process where binary...