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Yeah, in one of his papers [1] they did a DAPI stain and said it was positive for DNA. They really need to do sequencing. It's cheap enough to do sequencing of
by sndean 11y ago
Yeah, in one of his papers [1] they did a DAPI stain and said it was positive for DNA. They really need to do sequencing. It's cheap enough to do sequencing of microbes now that some lab could simply offer to do it without funding.
Ignoring the idea of "alien life", whatever they find out would be interesting. Craig Venter sequenced the ocean, Wainwright should do the stratosphere.
[1] http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21672857.2015.1087751 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21672857.2015.10...
- astrodust 11y ago"We've done tests and it's human, and apparently...our lab technician." Wasn't there a case of a lady being implicated in thousands of crimes based on DNA evidence because of contaminating the samples she was working with?
- sndean 11y agoThere's a lot of stories like that caused by sloppiness. If you blast (https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSearch https://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Blast.cgi?PAGE_TYPE=BlastSear...) the sequence of essentially every organism with a sequenced genome, you'll find long stretches of the human genome. Even worse are the genomes coming out of one specific lab... there are always stretches of the Chlamydia genome. I wonder if that tech knows?