Michael Crichton came up with idea of looking for dinosaur DNA inside biting insects in amber. Scientists tried it and it worked! They didn’t get even close to enough DNA to clone a dinosaur. The molecules were super degraded. But there was something there!
Michael Crichton came up with idea of looking for dinosaur DNA inside biting insects in amber. Scientists tried it and it worked! They didn’t get even close to enough DNA to clone a dinosaur. The molecules were super degraded. But there was something there!
That’s wrong. Scientists were looking at DNA in amber in the late 80s, Crighton got the idea from published work.
Writers often visit university researchers to ask for story ideas. I consulted on Regenesis.