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ELI5: Can an individual's own DNA be digitized? If so, could you keep it forever without it degrading? Could you do tests on the digital version alone without needing the physical material? (lemmit.online)

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The original was posted on /r/explainlikeimfive by /u/Doodlebug510 on 2023-06-26 07:35:51+00:00.

Sometimes forensic investigators bemoan the lack of "sufficient" DNA for testing.

Isn't an individual's entire genome embedded in each cell? So theoretically as long as you have a single cell of DNA and digitize it, that should be sufficient?

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