A single breast contains at least 1 billion cells, and each of those cells contains approximately 1.5 gigabytes of DNA.
Therefore a breast contains 1,500 terabytes of DNA.
If we further limit this to only the “junk” portion of the DNA that is not used in biological function and could in theory encode data without damaging the cell, then current scientific understanding puts between 75-80% of the storage as available.
Not all of the available storage could be used, but we only need 33.33% of the DNA to store the stated amount of data.
Additionally, I couldn’t find a cell count for a human breast and my estimation of 1 billion cells is very conservative, meaning that having 1000 tittybytes of mammary is entirely reasonable.
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