High-tech tools link T. rex to chickens
Harvard team IDs proteins in dinosaur bone
Call it the paleontological equivalent of squeezing blood from a stone. Using highly sensitive instruments and techniques more typically employed to study human disease, scientists at Harvard Medical School have for the first time isolated and identified proteins from a dinosaur, a tyrannosaurus rex that roared its last 68 million years ago. (Full article: 933 words)
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