Humans create a lot of digital data. And figuring out the best way to store it is a challenge.

Well, researchers think they may have started to solve that problem, by figuring out an efficient way to store digital data: on DNA. But how does it work?

In IT Blogwatch, we get our science caps on.

So what exactly is going on? Eva Botkin-Kowacki has some background:

Computer engineers have created some amazingly small devices…But geneticists say Mother Nature can do even better.
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DNA…is incredibly dense. The whole genome of an organism fits into a cell that is invisible to the naked eye.
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That’s why computer scientists are turning to microbiology to design the next best way to store humanity’s ever-increasing collection of digital data.

But how do you store digital data on DNA? Robert Service has the details:

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