Important Computing Development!

Scientists have stored audio and text on fragments of DNA and then retrieved them with near-perfect fidelity a technique that eventually may provide a way to handle the overwhelming data of the digital age.They later were able to retrieve them with 99.99% accuracy. 

See:
Naik, Gautam. "Storing Digital Data in DNA." The Wall Street Journal, January 24, 2013.


Cookson, Clive. "Scientists Look to DNA for Data Storage." The Wall Street Journal, January 23, 2013. 

Goldman, Nick, et al. "Towards Practical, High-Capacity, Low-Maintenance Information Storage in Synthesized DNA." Nature, January 23, 2013.