Washington, March 22 -- : In the future, you will be storing data not into megabytes or gigabytes, but into DNA. In what comes as a significant achievement, Microsoft and researchers from the University of Washington have been able to translate digital information into DNA and then back to bits.
Together, the researchers have been able to build a full end-to-end automated DNA storage device, Engadget reports.
The prototype device converted the word 'Hello' into DNA. The device first encoded the bits (1's and 0's) into DNA sequences (A's, C's, T's, G's). It then synthesized the DNA and stored it as a liquid. This was then read by a DNA sequencer, and a software translated the sequences back into bits.
The entire process for the 5-byte mes...