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How Can We Store All of Our Data Timelessly

There is a solution that has been around for billions of years. DNA is nature’s oldest storage device. It contains all the necessary information to build and maintain a human being.

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How we can store digital data in DNA | Dina Zielinski · June 25th, 2019

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