This silicon chip grows DNA in plain water. It could rewrite how the world stores data.

This breakthrough transforms the building of synthetic DNA from a chemical process to an electrical one.
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Harvard scientists build a silicon chip that writes DNA with electricity, paving the way for cleaner gene synthesis and DNA-based data storage

Silicon chips have long been the backbone of computing, but a Harvard-led research team has given them an entirely different job: writing DNA. As reported by Science Daily, a study published in Nature ...
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Making DNA on a semiconductor chip

Silicon chips have powered computing for half a century. Increasingly, they are also becoming platforms to read and manipulate biology at scale – recording from many neurons, reading many DNA ...