Synthetic DNA used as data storage shouldn’t terrify earth’s current inhabitants yet

It may be too early to start firing up your DNA thumb drive, but that’s not out of the question in the near future. A British scientist has imprinted 739kb of data onto a strand of synthetic DNA that includes 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets, a photo, a PDF of a scientific paper, and a 26-second… Continue reading Synthetic DNA used as data storage shouldn’t terrify earth’s current inhabitants yet