I saw on the science instagram that Harvard scientists were able to encode a video of a horse running onto DNA that was put inside a living bacteria. Then they retrieved said video at 90% accuracy. What does this mean and how is this possible?
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We can make DNA cheaply and at large scale.
We can sequence DNA cheaply and at large scale.
All they did was follow those two steps. DNA can be thought of as information, like information you would find in a computer file, so they just copied it.
What this means is just scientists showing off. Maybe can be useful for long-term, large scale data storage.
Will this lead to something where we can store petabytes of data cheaply by using DNA? Who knows, maybe, but we’re nowhere near that point, likely that would be decades away if even economically viable at all.
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