They conducted a pilot experiment called “iDNAdrive,” where 60 student volunteers with no professional biolab experience ...

Scientists successfully encoded substantial amounts of ... According to Qian, this development could create desktop DNA printers or data storage kits for home or small organizations.

However, researchers often want to encode more than just text, so most current methods instead first translate data into binary code—the language of 1s and 0s used in electronic media. Using binary, ...

To test DNA’s media-storage capabilities, Erlich, an assistant professor of computer science at Columbia University in New York City, and Dina Zielinski, a senior associate scientist at the New York ...