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GEORGE CHURCH "stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times. " "One gram of DNA can store 700 terabytes of data. That’s 14,000 50-gigabyte Blu-ray discs… in a droplet of DNA that would fit on the tip of your pinky. To store the same kind of data on hard drives — the densest storage medium in use today — you’d need 233 3TB drives, weighing a total of 151 kilos."" " http://lnkd.in/dP6WZ7P View in LinkedIn

DE-EXTINCTION "is not a novel idea. Medical researchers have resurrected the full genomes of the human endogenous retrovirus HERV-K and the 1918 influenza virus. Insight into these reanimated species could save millions of lives. Several other extinct genes, including for mammoth hemoglobin, have been reconstructed and tested for novel properties." (George Church). " " http://lnkd.in/dhjkN3m View in LinkedIn

EVERLASTING BIOCOMPUTERS. "The economical benefit of biocomputers lies in this potential of all biologically derived systems to self-replicate and self-assemble...all of the necessary proteins for a certain biochemical pathway, which could be modified to serve as a biocomputer, could be synthesized many times over inside a biological cell from a single DNA molecule, which could itself be replicated many times over. This characteristic of biological molecules could make their production highly efficient and relatively inexpensive."" " http://lnkd.in/d3s2QSs View in LinkedIn

REANIMATION OF EXTINCT SPECIES. "The goal of reanimation research is not to make perfect living copies of extinct organisms, nor is it meant to be a one-off stunt in a laboratory or zoo. Reanimation is about leveraging the best of ancient and synthetic DNA. The goal is to adapt existing ecosystems to radical modern environmental changes, such as global warming, and possibly reverse those changes." (George Church)." " http://lnkd.in/dhjkN3m View in LinkedIn

"BIOLOGICAL COMPUTERS can interact directly with living cells. One goal is to programme DNA-based computers to work inside the body to combat disease. Chemotherapy drugs currently target all rapidly dividing cells, including, for example, hair cells; a DNA computer could be programmed to identify and kill only cancerous cells."" " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

CHURCH'S BOOK "Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves" says that it is now "possible to resurrect practically any extinct animal whose genome is known or can be reconstructed from fossil remains" as has been done for the wooly mammoth and Neanderthal man. View in LinkedIn

MICRO-DNA COMPUTERS POSSIBLE. "We can get three trillion computers, working in parallel, in a space the size of a water droplet, The 0s and 1s of conventional computers are replaced with the four DNA bases: A, C, G and T. Operations can be translated into strands of DNA using these bases, and the way the DNA strands interact with each other produces new strands which can be decoded as output values."" " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

RECREATING THE NEANDERTHAL. "Church speculated that it could be technically possible to make a Neanderthal by reconstructing the DNA of a Neanderthal and modifying living human cells accordingly."" " http://lnkd.in/d4Ys85G View in LinkedIn

LIMIT OF SILICON STORAGE NEAR. "A 3.5-inch floppy disk could store a measly 1.44 megabytes of data –" "not even enough to fit a single mp3 music file. Today, a small one gigabyte (1,000 megabytes) USB flash drive can store about 200 songs. It is possible to store one terrabyte of data (1,000 gigabytes) on a single USB stick, enough for 2,000 hours of music. Flash memory USB sticks of this size are already on the market." But the limits of storage are being approached. " " http://lnkd.in/dN6qj6i View in LinkedIn

DNA HARD DRIVE. ""In 2011 we had 1.8 times 10 to the 21 bytes of information stored. By 2020 it will be 50 times that. That's an astounding number; and doesn't include a much larger set of data that's thrown away. At theoretical maximum, one gram of single stranded genetic code can encode 455 exabytes of information. That's 4.9 times 10 to the 11 GB. (the latest iPad (has) 64 GB of storage space.). DNA ... is often readable even after being exposed to unfavorable conditions for thousands of years."" " http://lnkd.in/dk76wna View in LinkedIn