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Storing Data like Nature | Chan Cao | TEDxEcublens

As digital data continuously accumulates, current available storage devices such as optical discs are getting close to their density limits. One solution is to learn from Nature, for instance, how genetic information is stored in DNA. Dr. Chan Cao is head of the Laboratory for Bio and Bio-Inspired Nanosystems at EPFL. Following her award of the prestigious PRIMA grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation in 2020, she founded her own research group at EPFL’s School of Life Sciences. Her work covers different aspects of molecular nanotechnology with a high focus in biological nanopore sensing, including the design of nanopores, detection of protein biomarkers, and nanopore-based molecular digital data storage. With her research in single-molecule approaches, Dr. Cao is addressing major questions in life science and also in diagnosis. Moreover, Dr. Cao is heavily investigating how DNA Nanostructures could be used as a completely new way of storing digital data. This new biological data storage system could have the potential to replace conventional storage systems such as servers and hard disks, thereby mitigating a range of detriments that these storage systems are causing to our planet such as the massive energy consumption that is continuously increasing from year to year. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx