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That sounds pretty sci-fi.
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But Tate did work at a biotech company.
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Forget about flash drives-- this is the future.
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So let's say that we wanted to store this
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digitally on synthetic DNA.
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First, we would have to translate the pixels
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into the zeros, ones and twos of ternary code.
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Then we'd transfer those numbers
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into the nucleic acids of DNA.
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The information can be retrieved
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as long as you have the right decryption key.
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Tate must have been storing something important,