Date: 19/05/2019 09:46:53
From: roughbarked
ID: 1389004
Subject: Archaeologists find DNA in 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum

Posted about an hour ago; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-19/archaeologists-find-human-dna-in-ancient-chewing-gum/11127714

A 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum offers an insight into Scandinavia’s first human settlers, with archaeologists extracting DNA belonging to three people.

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Date: 19/05/2019 13:46:43
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1389117
Subject: re: Archaeologists find DNA in 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum

roughbarked said:

Posted about an hour ago; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-19/archaeologists-find-human-dna-in-ancient-chewing-gum/11127714

A 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum offers an insight into Scandinavia’s first human settlers, with archaeologists extracting DNA belonging to three people.

Three people in one piece of chewing gum. Lol. I’d like to see that happen nowdays.

Good work. Pity the dinosaurs didn’t chew chewing gum … or did they?

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Date: 19/05/2019 16:02:05
From: PermeateFree
ID: 1389230
Subject: re: Archaeologists find DNA in 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum

Apparently ligit, only a short article and worth reading.

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Date: 19/05/2019 18:29:49
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1389306
Subject: re: Archaeologists find DNA in 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum

PermeateFree said:


Apparently ligit, only a short article and worth reading.

Yep.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-019-0399-1

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