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An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60


What may be the first commercially available book saved in DNA is the latest example of how consumers might use molecular data storage.

David Turek, Catalog’s chief technology officer, said it cost in the low thousands of dollars to encode the book in DNA and make 1,000 copies. In 2023, French company Biomemory started offering a$1,000 DNA storage card that allows customers to store roughly one kilobyte of data, equivalent to a short email, of their choosing. At the time, CEO Erfane Arwani told WIRED that the offering was an experiment to gauge consumer interest in DNA data storage.

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