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Radio 4,2 mins

"One gram of DNA can store two petabytes of information"

The Life Scientific

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With a colleague, Ewan Birney has already used a small speck of artificial DNA to store Shakespeare's sonnets and in theory, all of the world's information could be held on DNA in a space the size of a small room.

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