Half a Million DVDs in Your DNA

Half a Million DVDs in Your DNA
Robert F. Service, ScienceNOW, January 23, 2013

I saw this in a couple places today (here and here): "Researchers in the United Kingdom report today that they've encoded these works and others in DNA and later sequenced the genetic material to reconstruct the written, audio, and visual information." Several other initiatives are underway to accomplish the same thing. More...