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This silicon chip grows DNA in plain water. It could rewrite how the world stores data.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Creating synthetic DNA is essential for developing vaccines, advancing gene therapy, and building out biotechnologies like DNA storage, but the ...
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Harvard scientists build a silicon chip that writes DNA with electricity, paving the way for cleaner gene synthesis and DNA-based data storage

Silicon chips have long been the backbone of computing, but a Harvard-led research team has given them an entirely different job: writing DNA. As reported by Science Daily, a study published in Nature ...
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Making DNA on a semiconductor chip

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and manipulate biology at scale – recording from many neurons, reading many DNA ...
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This Silicon Chip Grows DNA in Plain Water. It Could Rewrite How the World Stores Data.

Creating synthetic DNA is essential for developing vaccines, advancing gene therapy, and building out biotechnologies like DNA storage, but the process is complicated and chemically intensive. A new ...