Researchers Cram 700TB of Data Into One Gram of DNA

[madooo12]

[citation][nom]bobusboy[/nom]Forget cloud storage: You could literally keep all of your personal information on you at all times[/citation]
actually it's very hard to do that in cells, they provide less density plus data would be easily mutated

 

[rwpritchett]

Just wait and see... The RIAA and MPAA will try to outlaw DNA polymerase.

 

[Antimatter79]

If there would one day be a way to use DNA to transmit data over a network at efficient speeds, we would pretty much be covered as far as internet bandwidth for years to come. Hopefully it wouldn't require quantum entanglement or it would be likely that none of us would be around to see it come to fruition, but who knows what the future holds. Very exciting breakthrough.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]thecolorblue[/nom]The size of DNA is the size of DNA... there is no larger version.The only difference is the length of the DNA chain... but a shorter span of DNA would carry less information. For all practical purposes, there is no difference in size between what would store 1 kilobyte of information vs 100000 terabyte of information. It's all ridiculously tiny.[/citation]

100000 terabytes would need a lot of DNA. It would take many grams if 700TB fit into a single gram. It would take almost 143 grams and that is not a ridiculously tiny amount at all. That's more than 14% of a kilogram.

 

[majudhu]

[citation][nom]fb39ca4[/nom]Anyone remember the article about how there was petabytes or something of data in human sperm?[/citation]
if i remember it was about speed (bandwidth)

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]bobusboy[/nom]Forget cloud storage: You could literally keep all of your personal information on you at all times[/citation]
Probably not, your DNA already has information stored in it (about you). You'd need to overwrite that, but that way your DNA wouldn't be a part of you anymore.

 

[Kami3k]

Like nearly every article I've seen you get it wrong.

IT'S NOT USING ACTUAL DNA!

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]Kami3k[/nom]Like nearly every article I've seen you get it wrong.IT'S NOT USING ACTUAL DNA![/citation]

If you're going to make a claim like that, would you at least explain why this is wrong?

 

[belardo]

I want a DNA drive!

 

[syrious1]

Johnny Neumonic

 

[syrious1]

don't forget Jurassic Park

 

[youssef 2010]

"Back up all your data on a gram of DNA"

That ought to come out soon