Svante Pääbo: Nobel Prize Conversations
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How Denis Sowans Retrieved DNA Samples From Sediment
I was wondering how that piece of fingerbone came to you, to you allowed to. And at this point, you make about being able to retrieve DNA samples from sediment. Of course, this must be a huge crossover with forensic science now in just in the modern world in crime fighting. It's extraordinary, isn't it? That you could piece together things from from what one would have thought was almost nothing. Yes. I mean, the conditions have to be right. So same limestone caves are ideal because it's sort of basic conditions. But when it works, it's really amazing. You can sort of retrieve from different layers, see what humans have been there.
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