Scientists are exploring how DNA’s physical structure can store vast amounts of data and encode secure information.

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Fragments of DNA from long-extinct human relatives still circulate in modern genomes, and in some cases they do more than ...

Since the computer age began, storing and securing escalating data volumes has been a headache. But that problem could potentially be solved using DNA.

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