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Jurassic Park inspires a new way to store DNA data

A close-up illustration of a translucent amber-colored rock with a DNA double helix held inside

Sometimes science fiction does inspire science research. À la Jurassic Park’s entombed mosquito, scientists have developed a method to store DNA in an amberlike material and still extract it easily hours later. This storage method is cheaper and faster than…