DNA Storage

DNA Storage

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 924 , Segment 5

Migrant Family Policy, I Not We, Ethical Hair, Double Booking, Angel Gowns

Episode: Migrant Family Policy, I Not We, Ethical Hair, Double Booking, Angel Gowns

  • Oct 18, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 15:24 mins

(Originally aired June 27,2018)  Guest: Luis Ceze, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington. As a human race, we've used cave walls, tablets, scrolls, flash drives, and the "cloud" to store information. But even digital information, thousands of years from now, will be lost. Nature, on the other hand, has perfected a data storage system that can withstand all kinds of conditions for millennia: DNA.