The Rise of DNA Data Storage
b'The 144 words of Robert Frost\\u2019s seminal poem \\u201cThe Road Not Taken\\u201d fit neatly onto a single printed page or a 1 kilobyte data file. Or in Hyunjun Park\\u2019s hands, a few drops of water in the bottom of a pink Eppendorf tube. Well, really what\\u2019s inside the water: invisible floating strands of DNA. Scientists have long touted DNA\\u2019s potential as an ideal storage medium; it\\u2019s dense, it\\u2019s easy to replicate, it\\u2019s stable over millennia.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'