And, since the garment is custom-made, it can be custom-designed, with any combination of material, colours and styles the manufacturer can handle.

ECONOMIST: American textiles

Dr. Church said he first considered encoding the novel "Moby Dick, " but then chose to use his own manuscript because its combination of words, pictures and JavaScript code would better showcase DNA's capacity to handle different kinds of information.

WSJ: Harvard Researchers Turn Book Into DNA Code