Latest study reveals 1 gram of DNA can store up to 700 terabytes of data [video included]

The Watchers
September 6, 2012

One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data, reveals the latest research done by George church, a bio-engineer and professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School with his team;  which is 1000 times more than previous record in terms of data density. Team was successful in storing around 700 kilobytes of data, which in this case was church’s latest book Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves; and were able to make 70 billion copies of the same (almost 44 petabytes of data).

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