Scientists successfully stored 'Wizard of Oz' into DNA, and this yellow brick road could lead to the future of a data storage.
DNA can store far more data than a magnetic hard drive, but the technology is limited because the genetic material is prone to errors.
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin have come up with a way to store information in strands of DNA, while also correcting those errors.
To prove it, they've put the entirety of The Wizard of Oz—translated into Esperanto— into strands of DNA, with greater accuracy than prior methods.
When the Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977, ready to study the outer limits of our solar system, they brought with them two golden phonograph records that each contained an assemblage of sounds and images meant to represent life on Earth. But in the future, the perfect next-gen space capsule could be found within our bodies.
That's because DNA is millions of times more efficient at storing data than your laptop's magnetic hard drive. Since DNA can store data far more densely than silicon, you could squeeze all of the data in the world inside just a few grams of it.
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Does it matter if we squeeze data into DNA if it requires ridiculous knowledge and equipment on how to read and decode it?
https://viroliegy.com/2022/01/26/the-epistemological-crisis-in-genomics/