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Eliza Strickland 27/04/16 : "Bodies are fragile and prone to the eventual failure known as death. But the DNA that encodes all the instructions for creating and operating those perishable bodies ? That stuff sticks around. Thanks to 7000-year-old DNA from a tooth found in a Spanish cave, for example, we know that the “caveman” who died there had blue eyes and was probably lactose intolerant. Now Microsoft is making an investment in DNA data storage, a cutting-edge technique that takes advantage of genetic material’s durability and efficiency. The company has taken a chunk of data that would normally be stored in a file on a hard drive, and has translated it into the genetic code...
