Microsoft is buying tiny strands of DNA to store big data A gram of DNA could store close to a trillion gigabytes of data. Blair Hanley Frank IDG News Service Apr 27, 2016 5:50 PM http://www.pcworld.com/article/3062696/storage/microsoft-is-making-big-data-really-small-using-dna.html Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data […]