This 3D-Printed Bunny Could Be the Future of Data Storage

This 3D-printed plastic rabbit is an advanced proof of concept for DNA as data storage. » Subscribe to Seeker! » Watch more Elements! » Visit our shop at Just like 1s and 0s are the way computers encode information, DNA base pairs do the same. And although this plastic rabbit is not alive, instructions for how to replicate it are encoded into the rabbit itself. But DNA offers more density than 1s and 0s, packing all of the instructions for a human body into the nucleus of a cell. And research teams around the world have been demonstrating that they’re able to encode hundreds of thousands of terabytes of digital data in GRAM-quantities of DNA. Picture hundreds of thousands one-terabyte hard drives and all of the information you could store on them—videos, photos, and more—and then picture all that information being stored in just a few grams of biological material. DNA offers quite the imp