From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong department: Scientists have now managed to write executable code into DNA that is theoretically capable of infecting the computer that reads it. It was only a ...

Zettabytes—that’s 10 21 bytes—of data are currently generated every year. All of those cat videos have to be stored somewhere, and DNA is a great storage medium; it has amazing data density and is ...

A team from North Carolina State University and Johns Hopkins University claims to have developed the first DNA-based method that can store, retrieve, calculate, delete and repeatedly overwrite data.