Note on Emerging Science: Oldest DNA Ever Sequenced
BASCOMB: It's Living on Earth, I'm Bobby Bascomb CURWOOD: And I'm Steve Curwood. Just ahead the serious health problems facing people when fracking facilities move in next door but first this note on emerging science from Grace Callahan. [SCIENCE NOTE THEME] CALLAHAN: Scientists have set a new record: they've sequenced the oldest DNA to date! An international team of scientists led by researchers at the Centre for Paleogenetics in Sweden has pieced together the genome of a mammoth fossil, more than a million years old. They published their findings in the journal Nature. This shatters the p...