Harvard archeologists have extracted usable DNA from long-dried spit on wads of prehistoric gum. Employing methods now common at modern-day crime scenes, they also managed to gather and analyze DNA from 2,000-year-old bloodstained garments, they report in next month's Journal of Field Archeology. (Full article: 805 words)
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