We’ve written about DNA storage and its potential several times before. However, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) is developing a “DNA hard drive,” which “moves the field closer to a practical, rewritable system.” That’s good, as readers prefer practical solutions to pie-in-the-sky projects, and rewritables are particularly attractive. Unfortunately, Mizzou’s blog post on its DNA hard drive advance is pretty light on technical details, and doesn’t share any prototype photos, demo statistics, or availability timescales, for example.
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