Wow. Michael Crichton might have been right. Apparently you canfind soft tissue in 70-million year old dinosaur bones! Kind of a scary thought, especially considering where the tissue was found... (Link)
Funny this is, and I read this story on the Beeb, the lab working on that sample, has no expertise on extract and analyzing DNA data.
I understand that the expectation of obtaining DNA is miniscule, but you would at least expect a bunch of DNA hot-shots to be running after that sample.
Funny this is, and I read this story on the Beeb, the lab working on that sample, has no expertise on extract and analyzing DNA data.
ReplyDeleteI understand that the expectation of obtaining DNA is miniscule, but you would at least expect a bunch of DNA hot-shots to be running after that sample.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4379577.stm