Hal Rosen, a manager of research at Hitachi, says he's impressed by the researchers' ability to shrink so much storage into such a small space, but skeptical that a self-assembling method could create larger-scale disks.
The cloud is a low capital investment method for companies, such as social networks or games, to develop, deliver and scale without expensive upfront infrastructure investment.
The new study involves a complex method that requires women to donate eggs, and a demanding manipulation of cell components on a tiny scale, Daley said.