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How we can store digital data in DNA

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Dina Zielinski |

TEDxVienna

• October 2017

From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's been around for a few billion years: DNA.

From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares the science behind a solution that's been around for a few billion years: DNA.

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Bench scientist, bioinformatician

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Dina Zielinski brings biological data to life, from decoding mutations in cancer to encoding data in DNA.

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