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Am I the only one getting Jurassic Park potential vibes off of this? The potential genetic information from this find is amazing.
by Communitivity 9y ago
Am I the only one getting Jurassic Park potential vibes off of this? The potential genetic information from this find is amazing.
- pmoriarty 9y agoDoes any DNA survive that long? I thought I'd read somewhere that it gets destroyed relatively quickly.
- NikolaeVarius 9y agoHalf life of 521 years.
- mbreese 9y agoAt least add a link... http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11555 http://www.nature.com/news/dna-has-a-521-year-half-life-1.11... From this article, it would appear that DNA would probably be unreadable at around the 1.5M year mark, well short of the 110M years that would be required to recover DNA from this dinosaur.
- sndean 9y agoThere was this, recently: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/no-bones-no-problem-dna-left-cave-soils-can-reveal-ancient-human-occupants http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/no-bones-no-problem-d... That's only 50,000 years, though. Also, no idea what the quality of the DNA is at that point.
- kyberias 9y agoNo it doesn't. Yet Neanderthal DNA has been sequenced.
- fsloth 9y agoIn this case, "intact" means that the tissue was preserved in shape long enough for the sample to fossilize. Not that it actually survived in original chemical composition for 100 million years.