the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory

A team of scientists from the European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have dramatically demonstrated the data storage powers of DNA - by storing data such as Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech and Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets byte by byte on DNA molecules.
DNA is lightweight, compact and easy to transport. It can also last for thousands of years if stored correctly. The technique is not commercially viable at the moment, but the authors of the paper in Nature argue convincingly that this could be eventually scaled up to create huge storage possibilities, far beyond what exist today.

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