Ancient DNA reveals secrets of Pompeii victims
It is an almost complete set of “genetic instructions” from people who died when Mount Vesuvius erupted. …
“It was all about the preservation of the skeletons,” explained Prof Gabriele Scorrano, from the Lundbeck GeoGenetics centre in Copenhagen, who led the study. “It’s the first thing we looked at, and it looked promising, so we decided to give [DNA extraction] a shot.”
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