Good morning, CIOs. Scientists are looking towards code as computers reach their limit storing today's zettabytes of data. And not just any code but the code of life itself—DNA. Why DNA? "All the information to create a human being, for instance, can be coded in 3 billion base pairs of just four chemical nucleotides—adenine (A) paired with thymine (T), or guanine (G) paired with cytosine (C)—that fit neatly inside a single cell," The Wall Street Journal's Robert Lee Hotz reports. "Scientists can encode information using those four letters, much as digital data are currently translated into the binary language of ones and zeros." Taking storage down to the molecular level. Last June, Boston-based DNA computing company Catalog stored all the text of Wikipedia in strands of synthetic DNA. And scientists Monday announced a method for mixing genetically encoded data into common manufacturing materials. More specifically, they sealed within a small plastic bunny DNA data containing 3-D printing instructions for replicating the bunny. One day the storage technique could be used to embed electronic health records into prescription drugs, the scientists said. | 
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