The data storage method of the future needs to be robust and dense.

Where are we looking to find this holy grail of data storage?

But perhaps a freezer would be a better analogy, because data stored on DNA can last for thousands of years whereas data loss occurs on tape with 30 years and even sooner on SSDs and HDDs.

“A natural next step is to embed digital logic in the chip to allow individual control of millions of electrode spots to write kilobytes per second of data in DNA, and we foresee the technology reaching arrays containing billions of electrodes capable of storing megabytes per second of data in DNA.

As promising as this all sounds, we are many years away from storing DNA on data.

Still, researchers around the world are working to bring us closer to an era where the data we create is stored on the very molecule that contains our genetic information.