Forget flash – the computers of the future might store data in DNA. George Church of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University and colleagues have encoded a 53,400-word book, 11 JPG images and a ...

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The team converted 11 JPEG images, a JavaScript program, and a 53,400-word book co-written by Church into bit form. They then synthesised DNA to repeat that sequence of bits, encoding one bit at ...