R&D: Nucleic Acid Memory
DNA surpasses information density and energy of operation offered by flash memory.
By Francis Pelletier | March 25, 2016 at 3:04 pmNature Materials has published an article written by Victor Zhirnov, Semiconductor Research Corporation, 1101 Slater Road, Durham, North Carolina 27703, USA, Reza M. Zadegan and William L. Hughes Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725-2090, USA, Gurtej S. Sandhu, Micron Technology, Inc., PO Box 6, 8000 South Federal Way, Boise, Idaho 83707-0006, USA, and George M. Church, Department of Genetics, Harvard University, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Figure 2: Mechanism of NAM information degradation by hydrolysis.
a, Simulated model of a single-stranded DNA molecule in an aqueous environment.
b, Illustrated mechanisms of depurination (red crosses in place of DNA bases),
backbone cleavage (red cross in the DNA backbone), and point mutations result… 
Abstract : “Nucleic acid memory has a retention time far exceeding electronic memory. As an alternative storage media, DNA surpasses the information density and energy of operation offered by flash memory.“
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