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For All Eternity

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DNA Data Storage Is the Original Storage Device

Dina says you can use DNA just like a hard drive or a floppy disk, but it does an even better job. Dina: "We can actually say that DNA is the original storage device" It stores all of the data that makes up living beings and has been optimized over billions of years.

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