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DNA is 1,000 times more compact than solid-state hard drives. Now you can buy the first commercially available book written in DNA

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69% Informative

Asimov Press debuts an anthology of biotechnology essays and science fiction stories encoded in DNA.

The company created 500,000 unique DNA molecules to encode 240 pages in the book, representing 481,280 bytes of data.

DNA is at least 1,000 times more compact than solid-state hard drives.

Scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information.

VR Score

57

Informative language

48

Neutral language

68

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

50

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long-living

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