Forget bulky e-books: Scientists find a way to encode novels in DNA - and 70 billion copies could fit on your thumbnail

Forget bulky e-books: Scientists find a way to encode novels in DNA - and 70 billion copies could fit on your thumbnail | Mail Online: "e-Books could be on the way out just as they are getting started, after scientists found a way to encode information within a DNA sequence. Harvard geneticists used the novel strategy to encode 70 billion copies of a single tome - a book published by their own team - into DNA, fitting all the contents into the space the size of a thumbnail."