DNA
has been a powerful and effective storage medium for life on Earth for
millions of years. But what if researchers could harness
this storage power for all of humanity's information? Molecular Biologist Nick Goldman
and his team at the European Bioinformatics Institute have created a
way to do just that. According to Goldman, all the information in the
world could be encoded and stored in DNA, and it would fit in the back
of a SUV and last millions of years. The results from experimenting with
DNA as data storage suggest that data in DNA form could last 2,000
years if kept at a temperature of around 10°C. The DNA storage could be
preserved for over 2 million years if stored at a -18 °C.
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