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      Digital files stored and retrieved using DNA memory ... the resulting series of bases was then decoded on a computer to reproduce the five files.
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4. Scientists Turn DNA Into Rewritable Memory

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   May 22, 2012 – ... storage device. Now, though, synthetic biologists have managed to turn DNA into a form or rewritable memory, just like that in our computers.
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   Harvard Researchers Can Store All the Data Humans Make in a Year on 4 grams of DNA

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   Forget that hard drive humming inside your computer – the most efficient memory storage device on the planet might be locked up in each and every cell in your body. Scientists have been chasing down the idea of DNA memory storage for years now, and a team from Harvard may have finally broken the idea wide open.
   According to a report out of Harvard Medical School, a research team has exceeded the previous limits of DNA storage by about 1,000 times – meaning they were able to encode researcher George Church’s book onto a space the size of a thumbnail some 70 billion times. DNA storage works, in essence, just like regular binary storage, only the bases (TGAC) stand for a different value (T and G =1, A and C = 0). You can read  stored data like you would read a normal genome — not the quickest way to read, but getting quicker every day. The result is a method of storing data so dense that it makes most modern tech seem like wasted space.
   The team estimates that the every piece of digital information humankind produces in a year could be stored in about four grams of DNA.
   Since DNA takes so much longer to write and read than other, more accessible methods, Church thinks that it would best used for giant, long-term archives –- say, blanket the entire world in video cameras and only go into them when you really need to figure something out. His example is problematic in various ways, but hey, he’s a geneticist, not an ACLU lawyer.
   Theoretically, DNA in living tissue could be used to store information as well, but only for a very short period. So don’t look forward to keeping your schedule in your skin any time soon.
   The results will be published in the Aug. 17 issue of Science.
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   Yes. This totally explains my experience as an intuitive with the concept of BioCom which is a DNA based sentient computer embeded in a human body. Here is the page I first wrote about a BioCom for a Time traveling Humanoid visiting Earth and working here starting in 1987:

   • Memories part 8 and 9

   If you scroll down to Memories part 9 you can read about a sentient computer embeded in Arcane that exists on this principle. He also has deep storage in the fillings of Arcane's teeth in his back molars and micro mini-video cameras embeded in moles on Arcane's face. Two way radio communication is created through transceivers on the tips of fingers and toes of Arcane so communication can be relayed through Earth Satellites throughout this galaxy. By having his transmitters and receivers in the tips of fingers and toes it protects vital organs from damage from two way transmissions in this way throughout the galaxy.