DNA stores our genetic code. What if it could also be integrated with electronics to store and read other information? Scientists have been investigating how to store data in DNA, but retrieving the information remains a challenge.
Researchers at NYU and Arizona State—including Simon Vecchioni in NYU's Department of Chemistry—may have figured out how to change that by merging DNA with electronics and using it as a "switch," not just storage.
In their study, published in Matter, Vecchioni and his colleagues made a single DNA sequence into an electronic memory system by raising the pH to swap out the metal ions stored in the double helix, trading mercury for silver.
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