UW News
Karin Strauss
March 21, 2019
With a ‘hello,’ Microsoft and UW demonstrate first fully automated DNA data storage
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UW and Microsoft researchers have demonstrated the first fully automated system to store and retrieve data in manufactured DNA — a key step in moving the technology out of the research lab and into commercial data centers.