Is synthetic DNA the future of data storage? | Bridget Breaks It Down

Forget hard drives, saving files inside DNA is the next frontier of data storage. Bridget Carey explains how it works and explores a company that's using synthetic DNA to store cryptocurrency passwords.

[dspserge]

More Bridget, please! I love her animated enthusiasm.

[floyd]

I absorb large amounts of information in my memory every day by watching videos on YouTube. Most of it is very technical. The downfall is that it is not very accurate and has a tendency to be forgotten. Having all this information stored in your DNA would be a more positive form of storage. Placing a computer chip inside us to intercept this information as we need it and being able to use it at will would be quite super. We would all become a supercomputer.

[chrluc]

What's the point of having something super secure if you have to rely on labs (people) to convert and access the data?

[sistahmels]

It's amazing stuff! My son works at a biomedical lab and they make this stuff and also do the encoding for data storage. I don't understand much of it but his company is getting ready to increase manufacturing of DNA on a very large scale. It's the way of the future!

[managedownside]

It's only expensive because the demand is low. If the demand is high the cost goes down

[DavidQvist]

Cool Bridget. Really enjoy this series! 😃👍

[LoveLife-yhke]

Deoxyribonucleic acid as a storage medium, fascinating concept

[The_Natsu.]

So... DNA storage in computers, when?

[mihirbindal]

1:23 There falls my 600, 000, 000 GB data😂.

[dr_sriraviteja]

You are the most Adorable Adult ever, Bridget❤️
You are the only reason i subscribed to Cnet...
Keep being goofy and keep entertaining us.. 🙂

[ridiptukaria]

Proud that guy Vishal bhuyan is assamese. ❣️❣️❤️

[imdxpertm]

Interesting and informative. Thanks Bridget.👍

I would like to see latest research in :
IoT smart devices,
Future Mobile devices,
Brain computer Interface,
Health (monitors & new procedures)

[AcuriousC]

Imagine you inherited your parent's DNA that is a storage and you can access all the files of them

[lasarith]

600, 000, 000 GB is 600 Petabytes per 3 grams synthetic DNA.

[betabug]

If I were to backup my old computer data in some part of my body, and somehow needed to transfer my backup to a new computer...


How do we get the backup out?

[rogernevez]

1:35 *They are using DNA to store bitcoin passwords.*
Very smart sharing your bitcoin password with a lab.

[areruben]

Human beings have been looking for DNA data storage for years. Good luck!

[dr.meghanaghogare]

Thanks ...Got all my doubts cleared...In future you may grow a mole on your hand and store all your data in it..sounds crazy(currently only synthetic!! )

[buioso]

Honestly for just a password you can printi it down on paper, in 5 copies stored in 5 different place.

[hythu]

Thats crazy, imagine videos and photos running through your body! 😂