---
title: "Harvard cracks DNA storage"
date: 2012-08-18
description: "Harvard cracks DNA storage\nA bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data – around 700 terabytes – in a single gram of DNA, smashing the …"
---


[Harvard cracks DNA storage][1]

> A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard's Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data -- around 700 terabytes -- in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA [data density](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_storage_density "Memory storage density") record by a thousand times.

[1]: http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/134672-harvard-cracks-dna-storage-crams-700-terabytes-of-data-into-a-single-gram "Harvard cracks DNA storage"