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Abstract: Recent advancements in DNA storage show that composite DNA letters can significantly enhance storage capacity. We model this process as a multinomial channel and propose an optimization ...

Synthetic DNA is an attractive medium for long-term data storage because of its density, ease of copying, sustainability, and longevity. Recent advances have focused on the development of new encoding ...

DNA is known to keep its form for centuries, and the researchers found that their tape could store data for more than 345 years at room temperature, or about 20,000 years at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how human-specific DNA changes shaped our evolution. A new study by the Max Planck ...

The world is drowning in data. Every day, YouTube alone uploads 20 million new videos. That’s in addition to the selfies, emails, 8K videos and Zoom calls. We’re straining the physical limits of the ...

TEXARKANA, Texas- Police are hoping to solve more cold cases using advanced DNA technology. Investigators recently made a break-through in a more than decade old case, and they're not stopping there.

This “DNA cassette” holds an astonishing 36 petabytes of information, enough to contain more than three billion songs. Researchers see this innovation as a potential game-changer in the world of ...