Ichthyic
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Joined: May 2006
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Now THIS merits watching to see what results come out:
http://www.physorg.com/news72618868.html
and in case you had the immediate obvious thought...
| Quote | They face the complication of working with 40,000-year-old samples, and of filtering out microbial DNA that contaminated them after death.
About 5 percent of the DNA in the samples is actually Neanderthal DNA, Egholm estimated, but he and Rothberg said pilot experiments had convinced them that the decoding was feasible.
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eat your heart out, Crichton.
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"And the sea will grant each man new hope..."
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