Store Personal Data with Live Bacteria

[techpr]

Running out of diskspace? Want more permanent storage? How about some bacteria? "Japanese scientists found a way to literally put a message into genes. A research team said this week it had developed a technology for storing digital data in the DNA of bacteria, which unlike most living organisms can survive for millennia in the right conditions.

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