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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe A DNA-based system could safely store data for millennia. Today's digital systems can store information for only around 50 years, but
encoding it in DNA could greatly extend its lifetime. Robert Grass at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and his colleagues have devised a system that encapsulates and
protects DNA strands in silica glass. The team also included redundancy codes to correct errors that arise when writing, storing and reading the data. This is a preview of subscription
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ARTICLE Long-term data storage in DNA. _Nature_ 518, 276 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/518276b Download citation * Published: 18 February 2015 * Issue Date: 19 February 2015 * DOI:
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