The discovery was made by accident by Rachel Grant, a life scientist at the Open University.

Lina Ferreira and Jun Ueda, both also life scientists, were filling in as assistants.

Did you visit any real life scientists for research?

Because it makes science faster and better, and it's helping life scientists join other fields in embracing a new mode.

But during the months of hamster tube building and structural consolidation, the life scientists had been quietly having their say.

Well, life scientists truly seem to be repenting for years of glossing over the complicated, unknown pathways that link genes to disease.

While the self-replicating properties of these crystals are still an unknown, real- life scientists are trying to unlock the data storage capabilities of glass.