DNA stored on crystal could bring back humanity after extinction

Sky Newsonseptembre 19, 2024

Scientists have stored the full human genome on a 5D memory crystal which they hope could provide a blueprint to bring humanity back from extinction thousands, if not millions, of years in the future. The team from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) also said the revolutionary data storage format that can survive for billions of years. Pic: Uni of Southampton

British scientists have stored DNA information for an entire human on a crystal, which could be used to bring back humanity if we become extinct.

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Publish date : 2024-09-18 21:38:00

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