Encoding information in DNA has long seemed like a promising way to secure data for the long term, but so far it has required an expert touch.
A full DNA computer is a step closer, thanks to a new technology that could store petabytes of data in DNA for thousands or even millions of years. The system can also process data, as demonstrated by solving sudoku puzzles.
For the first time, a primitive movie has been encoded in, and then played back from, DNA in living cells.
A pair of researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center show that an algorithm designed for streaming video on a cellphone can unlock DNA's nearly full storage potential by squeezing more information into its four base nucleotides.
Engineers program human cells to store complex histories in their DNA.
Researchers have developed one of the first complete systems to store digital data in DNA -- allowing companies to store data that today would fill a big box store supercenter in a space the size of a sugar cube.
