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Why the future of data is in our DNA
Forget USB drives, we can now store data – even text, music and video – in DNA, writes SCIENCE AND SOCIETY
IN every one of your body’s tissue cells there is one of the most information-dense storage materials that has ever existed: DNA.
Your genetic data contains the information that your body needs to grow, change and maintain each of the organs of your body and, even more apparently, unused information.
The data is stored in a sequence of four chemicals of the DNA molecule — the rungs of the famous helical ladder.
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