{"id":201210,"date":"2017-03-03T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201210"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:27:02","slug":"scientists-can-now-accurately-store-data-in-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/201210-scientists-can-now-accurately-store-data-in-dna.html","title":{"rendered":"Scientists can now accurately store data in DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/355\/6328\/950?utm_source=SciPak%20%2528updated%202%252F10%252F2017%2529&amp;utm_campaign=14d0335dd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_24&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_10c5e799a3-14d0335dd3-126515301\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>they can now store data in DNA strands with 100% accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers stored 215 petabytes (215,000,000GB) in a single gram of DNA, with perfect decoding and retrieval.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, data stored in DNA strands can last for tens of thousands of years and will not become obsolete as quickly as conventional data storage devices.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers used DNA Fountain coding theory to encode the data, allowing them to piece together complete files when decoding &#8211; even if small sections of data were lost.<\/p>\n<p>The method has limitations, though, as it takes around 24 hours to decode 2MB of data and costs $7,000 to encode and decode.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/198186-genetically-modified-salmonella-destroys-cancer-tumours.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Genetically-modified Salmonella destroys cancer tumours<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers has stored data in DNA strands with 100% accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":201212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[11369,28264],"class_list":["post-201210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-data-storage","tag-dna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201342,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201210\/revisions\/201342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}