Thanks to an innovative technology for encoding data in DNA strands, two items of world heritage – songs recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival and digitized by EPFL – have been safeguarded for eternity. This marks the first time that cultural artifacts granted UNESCO heritage status have been saved in such a manner, ensuring they are preserved for thousands of years. The method was developed by US company Twist Bioscience and is being unveiled today in a demonstrator created at the EPFL+ECAL Lab.
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- Themes
- Research and Tech Transfer , IC, Computer Science, Physics, Electricity, Electronic, Research and Tech Transfer
- Copyright
- EPFL - Alain Herzog
- Licence
- CC0 Licence
- Shooting date
- Sept. 29, 2017
- Album
- Two items of anthology now stored for eternity in DNA
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