According to a report from CNET, “Microsoft is buying 10 million strands of laboratory-grade DNA from Twist Bioscience that they will use to encode digital data. The DNA strands are being studied as a potential replacement for conventional storage mediums, which have limited lifespans and low density.”
“As our digital data continues to expand exponentially, we need new methods for long-term, secure data storage”, said Doug Carmean, a member of Microsoft’s technology and research group. Carmean said tests demonstrated 100% of digital data it encoded on DNA could be recovered.
Source: CNET
