Grumpy Old Geeks Topics DNA data storage Topic DNA data storage 3 mentions in 1 episode An experiment in encoding digital files in DNA and recovering them. Mentions 199: Heisenberg's Uncertainty Cat Mar 6, 2017 1:42:57 DNA is like a great storage medium for data. 1:43:18 Scientists at Columbia university ... figured out how to actually encode data, digital data on DNA. 1:43:35 They were able to recover it.