Microsoft is testing 10 million long oligonucleotides of DNA, "prehistoric information technology," for long-term, secure data storage.

Move over tape and optical. Microsoft is working with a genetics startup to test the feasibility of creating a synthetic DNA-based storage system that can archive zettabyte-scale data. Microsoft ...

The same four chemical building blocks behind almost all life on earth could one day be used replace traditional computer storage. Read now The prospect of storing vast amounts of data on DNA has come ...

It won't be long before you can write megabytes of data per second on synthetic DNA that will be readable for thousands of years. Image: iStockphoto/Svisio Not all of the nine zettabytes of data ...

A few years ago, Harvard professor and bio-engineering rockstar George Church was a guest on The Colbert Report. As many of the talk show's guests did, he presented host Stephen Colbert with a copy of ...

Could tomorrow's data centers store information in the form of synthetic DNA? Researchers from Microsoft and the University of Washington have successfully encoded the word "hello" into DNA -- and ...

Microsoft is among the companies dabbling in DNA to store data, a sci-fi prompt that gets very exciting very quickly. A tech startup called Twist Bioscience reports that it has sold 10 million ...

Microsoft just made history as the company created a significant breakthrough in using artificial DNA to store data and information. The company operated with the University of Washington's Molecular ...

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Video“Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about management restructuring, 200MB of data being ...