I wrote about this back in 2013 comparing what we were able to encode in DNA at the time with what nature can :) https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2013/3

I wrote about this back in 2013 comparing what we were able to encode in DNA at the time with what nature can :) https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2013/3/28/dna-data-storage.html https://www.ryanmercer.com/ryansthoughts/2013/3/28/dna-data-... It was a bit of a task trying to figure out how much a strand of human DNA weighed (turns out about 0.000000001 picograms).