‘Just a Small Bit of DNA Theoretically Fits 200 Exabytes of Data’
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2 min readSep 4, 2020
In very meta news, Netflix says it has stored an episode of its new show Biohackers in DNA. It’s a first for the streaming service, which partnered with San Francisco biotech company Twist Bioscience and Robert Grass, a professor of chemistry and applied biosciences at ETH Zurich, to do so. The fictional German language series, which debuted in August, explores the futuristic possibilities of engineering biology.
To store data in DNA, a data file is first converted from its binary code of 0s and 1s into the four…
