DNA Gets a New — and Bigger — Genetic Alphabet

By CARL ZIMMER Science https://ift.tt/2Nkddlz
your-feed-science, Genetics and Heredity, DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid), Data Storage DNA is spelled out with four letters, or bases. Researchers have now built a system with eight. It may hold clues to the potential for life elsewhere in the universe and could also expand our capacity to store digital data on Earth