Note: this topic is from 7/24/2006 . Thanks SirLinksalot. This turned up in my search for the Old Uppsala story.
Posted on 07/25/2006 10:04:25 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
400,000-year-old DNA found in bear tooth
A Swedish-led team of scientists has discovered 400,000-year-old DNA in bear teeth, the Uppsala University in Sweden said.
The team, made up of Swedish, Spanish and German researchers, discovered the remains of the bear in a cave in Atapuerca, northern Spain.
"It is usually hard to find DNA that is older than 100,000 years, and work on fossilized DNA mostly focuses on material that is a few tens of thousands of years old, at most," team leader Anders Goetherstroem said in a statement.
He said the find "pushed back the frontier" concerning the age of DNA that scientists could work with. "It means that it will be possible to subject a large number of extinct animals to DNA analysis," he said.
PING
Now they can go back and see if anyone convicted of a crime 400,000 years ago was wrongfully convicted.
I remember a thread somewhere in FR where it was reported that from a team led by Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have found probable blood vessels, bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil.
Can't seem to find that thread though.
Now they can go back and see if anyone convicted of a crime 400,000 years ago was wrongfully convicted.
It shows what they know. Back then they were the Staleys.
Didn't convict OJ, and that was just in 95........
well, how old was the bear?
Bearassic Park next up.
And eventually bring them back to life. 1,000 years from now someone will be able to buy a DNA printer for their home computer from Comp USA, put the output into an incubator for a few months, and presto, any animal or person from the past can be re-created. And like buying a new ring tone for their phone they will be able to add fashionable DNA features to their new pet.
Lions and tigers and BEARS OH MY!!
Possibly an alien bear astronaught?
>>>I remember a thread somewhere in FR where it was reported that from a team led by Schweitzer and Wittmeyer have found probable blood vessels, bone-building cells and connective tissue in another T. rex, in a theropod from Argentina and in a 300,000-year-old woolly mammoth fossil.>>>
Why wouldn't that make national headlines? Wouldn't that dispel the myth of dinosaurs existing MILLIONS of years ago?
Sounds like a nudist colony.
Thanks for the ping, but in my always humble opinion, this is a thread to avoid.
Que Jurassic Park Theme!
What caliber for 400,000 year old bears?
The bear had "Kanawa was here" carved into it.
Note: this topic is from 7/24/2006 . Thanks SirLinksalot. This turned up in my search for the Old Uppsala story.
i hate it when i get something stuck in my teeth
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