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Side note: When looking for HN posts, I tend to enjoy the ones where I know <4 words in the title. DNA has always been such a fascinating topic to me. In schoo
by apacheCamel 7y ago
Side note: When looking for HN posts, I tend to enjoy the ones where I know <4 words in the title.
DNA has always been such a fascinating topic to me. In school, we had such a limited look into it and yet it seemed to be the thing in what makes us "us". I really hope as a society we continue to push the boundaries of our knowledge to see what DNA can tell us. And out of teeth? That is just so awesome.
- nicwilson 7y agoFor others who are having trouble understating the title, it basically translates as: "Set of proteins in bit of tooth from very old rhino from Georgia (the Caucuses) enables genetic classification of some related species."
- mycrobe 7y agoDNA doesn’t survive that long. In this case they recovered the sequence of amino acids in proteins from the now-extinct rhino. Of course, the proteins were originally transcribed from the now-lost DNA, so you can use this information to infer this species position in the tree of life.
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