We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage medium -- most recently with a Harvard team fitting 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material -- and it looks like that research trend is only picking up.

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He hung graphs of the data, down to the gram, on the bathroom wall.

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One gram of DNA ought to be able to hold about two petabytes of data, he added - the equivalent of about three million CDs.

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