Yaniv Erlich Discusses the Study (VIDEO)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

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Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) show that an algorithm designed for streaming video on a cellphone can unlock DNA's nearly full storage potential by squeezing more information into its four base nucleotides. They demonstrate that this technology is also extremely reliable.

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