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For All Eternity

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How to Get Data Out of the DNA

DNA is still fragile on its own. But if you keep it protected, so we can store DNA in silica beads,. Robert Grass's team have shown that the DNA is stable for thousands of years. They showed that by inducing temperature and other stress, they were still able to recover the data from the DNA.

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