Convention on the Rights of the Child Stored in DNA

Video Nov 12, 2019 | Taken from the EMBL-EBI

EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) has helped UNICEF store the text of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in synthetic DNA. The capsule containing the DNA will be safely kept in the permafrost in the Arctic World Archive, in Svalbard, Norway.

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