Long-term storage of digital information in DNA is possible
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 06:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It is evident from samples from mammoths, bears, and other fossils: sequenceable DNA can last up to several hundred thousand years. But one does not necessarily need fossil bones as capsules of silica glass spheres can do the same job, as Robert N. Grass and colleagues from the ETH Zurich demonstrate in their Communication in Angewandte Chemie.