The last time Dave Ross spoke with Luis Ceze at the University of Washington, he was working on how to store your photos and documents inside artificial DNA. Two years later, his research team has now automatized the entire process, they can save a full gigabyte of information, and they can extract that information back out from the DNA in just two hours. It could revolutionize the way we store data, and replace countless data storage buildings the size of a Walmart with spaces as tiny as a sugar cube.

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