The First Book Encoded in DNA

Aside from the fact that there are 70 billion copies of it in existence, very few people have actually read the book Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves in DNA, by George Church and Ed Regis. The reason being because it is written in the basic building blocks of life: Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. Church, along with his colleague Sriram Kosuri, used the book to demonstrate a breakthrough in DNA data storage.

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