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Protein-Packed Hard Drives Promise High Capacity

Posted by timothy on from the will-donate-blood-for-this dept.

Digimax writes "The New Scientist has an interesting article on a technology being developed by NanoMagnetics which involves using a protein responsible for storing iron in the body to store data on a hard drive. Is this the start of the BioTech revolution?"

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  1. biology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    If hard drives used protein, they would need mitocondria. They are powerhouses that are necessary for the production of protein. Mitocondria are made out of protein, and thus would require more disks to make them. Thus, there would be a never ending cycle of mitocondria production. This may open up a new market for cellular donation of live mitocondria, until they could be produced in-lab.