UW team stores digital images in DNA -- and retrieves them perfectly
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 18:30
in Mathematics & Economics
All the movies, images, emails and other digital data from more than 600 basic smartphones (10,000 gigabytes) can be stored in this faint pink smear of DNA. Technology companies routinely build sprawling data centers to store all the baby pictures, financial transactions, funny cat videos and email messages its users hoard.