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Electricity and CRISPR used to write data to bacterial DNA

Enlarge (credit: Rizlan Bencheikh and Bruce Arey, PNNL) In recent years, researchers have used DNA to encode everything from an operating system to malware. Rather than being a technological curiosity, these efforts were serious attempts to take advantage of DNA’s properties for long-term storage of data. DNA can remain chemically stable for hundreds of thousands […]