To encode data, the team selects different combinations of pegs. ... “It’s really computer science, materials science, physics, chemistry, biology and engineering coming together.” ...

It turns out that you don’t need to be a scientist to encode data in DNA. Researchers have been working on DNA-based data storage for decades, but a new template-based method inspired by our ...

Chemical modifications of DNA used to encode bits of data. ... Epi-bits mirror the bits used in conventional computer hardware, which store information as one of two binary values (0 or 1).