A few years ago, Harvard professor and bio-engineering rockstar George Church was a guest on The Colbert Report. As many of the talk show's guests did, he presented host Stephen Colbert with a copy of ...

Microsoft has detailed a major breakthrough in its work on synthetic DNA storage, specifically on improving data throughput. The proof-of-concept is the subject of a new study from Microsoft Research ...

The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage. Read now The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come ...

Microsoft just made history as the company created a significant breakthrough in using artificial DNA to store data and information. The company operated with the University of Washington's Molecular ...

As more and more data is created, engineers are busy searching for ways to maximize the amount of information that can be stored per square foot, so that we don’t wind up filling every last inch of ...

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years. Image: iStockphoto/Svisio Not all of the nine zettabytes of data ...

If you run out of storage you can just spit. Boffins from Microsoft and the University of Washington are planning to encode cloud data onto synthetic DNA molecules. The team successfully encoded about ...

The University of Washington’s Luis Ceze and Lee Organick prepare DNA containing digital data for sequencing. (UW Photo / Tara Brown Photography) Twist Bioscience says it’s extending its collaboration ...

Software King of the World Microsoft just booted up the first “DNA drive” for storing data. The photocopier sized device converts digital information into DNA and back into electronic format. The big ...

Based on early research involving the storage of movies and documents in DNA, Microsoft is developing an apparatus that uses biology to replace tape drives, researchers at the company say. Computer ...

Microsoft is on its way to replacing data centers with DNA. The company and researchers from the University of Washington have successfully automated the process to translate digital information into ...

The technology giant wants to develop information storage for its power-hungry data centers that uses DNA instead of magnetic tape drives. A few years ago, Harvard professor and bio-engineering ...