Major technology companies, like Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are investigating the use of DNA to store vast quantities of digitized data. Such data storage solutions would be retrievable thousands of years later.
The quest to learn more about the mysteries of DNA is not only important for areas like genetic diseases, it could also influence how technologists design the next generation of efficient computer storage.
Sydney -
Ma Nature apparently has a sense of humour. The room temperature data storage the world has been looking for has literally been right under our noses for 3.5 billion years- Encoded DNA.
