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  • Natural amber can preserve DNA from insects, plants and animals for long periods, and now scientists have created an artificial version that could do the same
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    Artificial amber stores data in DNA long-term
    DNA is a much denser data storage medium than anything humans can design, but the problem is that it’s fragile. So now scientists have taken another page out of nature’s book and created artificial amber to protect data stored in DNA longer term.