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Re:Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data ... by itchyjunk on Saturday March 23, 2019 @08:50AM (#19470230)
""Under the right conditions, DNA can last much longer than current archival storage technologies that degrade in a matter of decades. Some DNA has managed to persist in less than ideal storage conditions for tens of thousands of years in mammoth tusks and bones of early humans, and it should have relevancy as long as people are alive.""

But that doesn't explain storage density. And biological DNA has mechanisms to survive in a cell but these synthetic DNA's might be standalone.

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Re:Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data ... by tomatotomato37 on Saturday March 23, 2019 @09:49AM (#19470429)
One other suspect thing about that is that the DNA in a body is essentially replicated across every single cell, which means maybe that the DNA from 10,000 yeras ago has just survived as a rule of statistics over any individual durability
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Re:Microsoft, UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data ... by leggomylibro on Saturday March 23, 2019 @02:37PM (#19471708)
I wonder if you could make separate 'zip/unzip' stations to compress/decompress them with histone proteins, like the body does.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone

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