A scientist at the Harvard Medical School is reportedly developing a new DVD coated in proteins from a genetically altered microbes. Developed as a hard disk replacement, these protein-based DVDs will be able to store at least 20x more than the Blu-ray and eventually even up to 50TB of information.
An Indian born scientist in the US is working on developing DVD's which can be coated with a light -sensitive protein and can store up to 50 terabytes (about 50,000 gigabytes) of data.
Professor V Renugopalakrishnan of the Harvard Medical School in Boston has claimed to have developed a layer of protein made from tiny genetically altered microbe proteins which could store enough data to make computer hard disks almost obsolete.
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