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19: The Science of Gay, How Many Songs Fit in DNA, and Niche Sports

Let's Learn Everything!

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The Challenge of Using DNA Like a Hard Drive

In 2018 researchers were able to make the first fully automated end to end device for both writing and reading DNA. Do you all remember how many songs the first iPod could hold? First iPod I never had an iPod original but had a physical wheel on the. The theoretical maximum for DNA storage is if every nucleotide was used to encode the most efficient amount of information, that's what we're looking at today.

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