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Hong Kong Team Stores 90GB of Data In 1g of Bacteria

Posted by timothy on from the feed-your-flashdrive dept.

Bananana writes "A research team out of the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found a way to do data encryption and storage with bacteria. The project is called 'Bioencryption,' and their presentation (as a PDF file) is here."

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  1. Funny by Konsalik · · Score: 3, Informative

    I see no posts tagged other than funny in this story's future...

  2. They stored about 100 bytes. by Animats · · Score: 3, Informative

    What they actually did was to store about 100 bytes. This may be useful for putting copyright information into genetically engineered organisms. As a method of bulk data storage, though, it leaves much to be desired.

    DNA synthesis costs about $0.29 per base pair. Sequencing is a bit cheaper, but you currently get less than 1000 base pairs sequenced per run. Reading and writing takes a room of expensive wet lab gear, and hours to days.

  3. Re:Virus? by nomoreunusednickname · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it doesn't.