Scientists encode Shakespeare sonnets and more into DNA

File this under cool and futuristic. Scientists have managed to put Shakespear sonnets, and video files into DNA. Yes DNA. They are using DNA as a hard drive. We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage thing before. A Harvard team recently fit 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material Scientists at the European Bioinformatics Institute in the UK have just encoded an MP3 file -- along with a digital photo and all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets into DNA, with a storage density of 2.2 petabytes per gram.

If you remeber Science class, and I do, the file was put into DNA bases A, T, C and G. This is so cool.

Though DNA storage is still quite expensive, the researchers say this method could eventually provide a viable option for archiving information, especially considering DNA's high capacity and long life span.