A New Way of Storing Digital Data?
When you think of storing you data what do you think off? Paper and pen, sure. Spinning hard drive, off course. Flash memory, getting a little more technical but sure why not. DNA, wait what? Yes, DNA could be a new way of storing DNA. Not now, but in the foreseeable future why not. When you think about it, it actually makes sense that DNA can be used ti store digital data. After all, we already us it to store our genetic data. Everything we are is stored in our DNA which is made up of 4 DNA bases, adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T). The 4 DNA Bases. Source This is actually very similar to how digital data is stored. Just like our entire being is stored in 4 little molecules, all digital information is essentially 0s and 1s. So scientists from Microsoft and the University of Washington are working together to store data as DNA by converting these 0s and 1s into a theoretical strand of DNA using these four bases using a special a...