Our increasingly digitized world has a data storage problem. Hard drives and other storage media are reaching their limits, and we are creating data faster than we can store it. Fortunately, we don't have to look too far for a solution, because nature already has a powerful storage medium with DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). It is this genetic material that Xingyu Jiang at the Southern University of Science and Technology in China and colleagues are using to create DNA storage cassettes.
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    11·
    3 个月前

    Is this how we get the first computer virus that can jump species into humans? Imagine humanity being taken down because some kid’s college essay, when DNA-encoded, happened to be deadly. That’s how you put the plague in plagiarism.

    • Domino@quokk.auOPEnglish
      4·
      3 个月前

      I’m sure the data/space savings are great, but for me it’s the ‘cool’ factor of mixing blood and machines, although it sounds very dystopian when I word it like that.

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
    1·
    3 个月前

    Do we have data storage problems? I thought the issue is having fast access to the unbounded amount of data we can easily store.