{"id":1028110,"date":"2026-08-11T11:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028110"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T06:12:08","slug":"scientists-build-a-silicon-chip-that-writes-dna-with-electricity-paving-the-way-for-cleaner-gene-synthesis-and-dna-based-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/11\/scientists-build-a-silicon-chip-that-writes-dna-with-electricity-paving-the-way-for-cleaner-gene-synthesis-and-dna-based-data-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists build a silicon chip that writes DNA with electricity, paving the way for cleaner gene synthesis and DNA-based data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon chips have long been the backbone of computing, but a Harvard-led research team has given them an entirely different job: writing DNA. As reported by Science Daily, a study published in Nature Electronics, Harvard researchers have unveiled a silicon chip DNA writer capable of synthesising DNA using electricity and water-based enzymes. The innovation marks a major departure from traditional phosphoramidite chemistry, which relies on hazardous organic solvents. The chip can simultaneously produce 64 different DNA sequences, each up to 39 nucleotides long, offering a cleaner and more scalable approach to DNA manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon chips have long been the backbone of computing, but a Harvard-led research team has given them an entirely different job: writing DNA. As reported by Science Daily, a study published in Nature Electronics, Harvard researchers have unveiled a silicon chip DNA writer capable of synthesising DNA using electricity and water-based enzymes. The innovation marks a major departure from traditional phosphoramidite chemistry, which relies on hazardous organic solvents. The chip can simultaneously produce 64 different DNA sequences, each up to 39 nucleotides long, offering a cleaner and more scalable approach to DNA manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028111,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028110\/revisions\/1028111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}