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DNA capsule storage … and at ambient temperature
You remember the film Jurassic Park ? Well, reality is catching up with fiction when it comes to the preservation of DNA.
The French biotechnology company Imagene has published the results of a study lasting over more than 12 years and leading to an important development in DNA preservation at ambient temperature.
DNAshell is a revolutionary “capsule” that offers a way round the costs and risks inherent to cold DNA preservation. For optimum efficiency, the process requires adherence to strict rules: no contact with air or water, even in the minutest amounts. This 1 cm long stainless steel container can store human, animal or plant DNA free from contact with air and humidity … at ambient temperature and for at least a century. And it can do all this without the slightest change or deterioration. Up to now, this had been impossible using the “traditional” tubes and phials. So, see you again in a hundred years …
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