This week, Microsoft has announced a partnership that could fundamentally transform our relationship with our past and the future.
Twist Bioscience has handed Microsoft 10 million long oligonucleotides of DNA molecules (quite a lot), so it can start testing the use of this “prehistoric information technology” for long-term, secure data storage.
Like computers, DNA molecules encode information into discrete units. DNA is made up of four of these, called nucleotides and referred to as A, C, G and T, rather than zeroes and ones. Long strands of DNA are made up of a sequence of these, with a particular order representing a specific piece of information.
Learn more: https://www.twistbioscience.com/could-dna-super-charge-the-digital-revolution/
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