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Scientists Just Found a Way to Store Data in DNA – Could Your Hard Drive Become Obsolete?


A new “DNA cassette”—a plastic tape embedded with synthetic DNA that stores up to 36 petabytes—has revived a bold idea: use biology to solve the world’s data

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