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Stuff You Should Know

Short Stuff: DNA Data Storage

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

One of the more futuristic things around right now on Earth is research into encoding data into strings of genetic code.

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0:10.8

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0:20.2

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0:24.1

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0:30.0

Hey, I'm Welcome to the short stuff I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too,

0:38.3

and so is Dave and Spirit, and we're coming at you from the future of right now.

0:44.6

This is one of those where it's so interesting, so cool, so mind blowing, and so promising,

0:51.9

and then you get to the very end, and then you're like, oh.

0:56.4

To me that just meant just give it a little more time.

0:58.7

No, and a lot of times that is the case, and probably will be in this case, but it was

1:02.1

such a...

1:03.1

Oh, and you'll see in about 12ish minutes what we're talking about.

1:07.3

So essentially what we're talking about first is data.

1:10.0

We've got a lot of data.

1:11.3

Like anytime somebody says something, thinks something, writes something down, somebody comes

1:15.3

up with a new recipe or a new patent or whatever, that gets encoded.

1:19.3

It's data that gets saved.

1:20.7

We don't really throw stuff away anymore.

1:23.4

And so we're kind of a wash in data.

1:26.6

If you want to take that data and you want to save it, you want to preserve it, let's

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