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Microsoft is using synthetic DNA to store data
Microsoft's data might be intact for thousands of years to come, now that it's looking into DNA storage as an option. The company has purchased 10-million-long oligonucleotides (DNA or RNA molecules) from San Francisco startup Twist Bioscience. According to IEEE, Redmond converted a chunk of data into DNA nucleotides -- G's, A's, C's and T's -- and had Twist make 10 million synthetic DNA strands with the sequences it specified. The startup doesn't actually have access to the data, since it doesn't have the key, and the only way to decode it is through DNA sequencing.
