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UW, Microsoft join $25M DNA data storage project

Post author By Alan Boyle
Post date January 17, 2020
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Image: DNA in test tube — All the movies, images and other digital data from more than 600 basic smartphones (10 terabytes) can be stored in the pink smear of DNA at the end of this test tube. (Credit: Tara Brown Photography / UW)

The University of Washington and Microsoft will take part in a federally funded effort to develop data storage techniques using synthetic DNA.

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Tags Data Storage, DNA, Microsoft, Microsoft Research, Science, Technology, University of Washington

By Alan Boyle

Mastermind of Cosmic Log, contributor to GeekWire and Universe Today, author of "The Case for Pluto: How a Little Planet Made a Big Difference," past president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

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