Scientoon on "Dung beetles as vertebrate DNA samplers" 

Paper is published in: biorxiv

Link to paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.10.430568v1 

 

Science cartoon on DNA as storage material for digital data

      Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare. Robert Grass and his colleagues from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich are working on ways to increase DNA's longevity, with the aim of storing data for thousands or millions of years. They also tried to mimic the way fossils keep a DNA sequence intact. Excluding all water from the environment was key, so they encapsulated the DNA in microscopic spheres of glass. By using certain method they got good result. Further details can be explored from the following links:

 Article link: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22530084.300-glassedin-dna-...1#.VOk1HuHYHYk

Published Paper link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201411378/abstract;jsessionid=977773072CF230DE602624D7793ABB5D.f04t03

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