Microsoft wants to use DNA to store data

Washinton: Microsoft is exploring the oldest living thing in the world as a way of storing information and avoiding a forthcoming data apocalypse. It hopes that using the highly-efficient and long-lasting molecule will allow it to keep pace with the growth of data - a problem that otherwise might lead to the loss of data.
The amount of data in the world roughly doubles each year - but it is becoming harder and harder to actually store all of it.

Now Microsoft has bought millions of strands of the molecules which is how the body of every living thing stores information about itself, to see if its astounding data properties can be harnessed for storing other kinds of information too.
DNA can fit almost 1 billion terabytes of data into just one gram. That makes it far more efficient than any other known form of computer storage.

And it also manages to last for a long time, as can be seen in the fact that the DNA of woolly mammoths has stayed accessible tens of thousands of years after they died. Experts suggest that storing data in DNA would allow it to last for 2,000 years or more, making it far more long-lasting than traditional data storage.