By utilizing living cells and their built-in biological mechanisms to encode and store data, a” biological camera” circumvents the limitations of current DNA storage techniques. This represents a significant advancement in the direct encoding and storage of images within DNA, leading to the development of an information storage model resembling that of digital cameras. The team’s findings, which have the potential to revolutionize the data-storage sector, were published in Nature Communications on July 3, 2023, under the direction of Principal Investigator Associate Professor Chueh Loo Poh from the College of Design and Engineering at the National University of Singapore and the NUS Synthetic Biology for Clinical and Technological Innovation( SynCTI ).
Capturing the immense potential of microscopic DNA for data storage
