The team from Harvard's Wyss Institute have published their results in the journal Nature Materials.

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Along with fellow Swiss billionaire, Ernesto Bertarelli, he is planning to launch Wyss Institute in the former Merck Serno offices in Geneva.

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The stored data "is sequential, like a magnetic tape, where you have to spool through stuff to get at the data, " said bioengineer Sriram Kosuri at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, who was the project's lead researcher.

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