Posted on 01/06/2022 5:04:17 PM PST by BenLurkin
All living organisms, including humans, leach genetic material known as eDNA into the environment when they excrete waste, bleed, and shed skin or fur.
[M]onitoring airborne eDNA was more of a challenge because it's more diluted in air than it is in water.
While the two research teams used different methods to filter the DNA from air -- both were successful in identifying the animals lurking nearby -- inside the confines of the zoo and outside.
The team working at the Hamerton Zoo Park was able to identify DNA from 25 different species of animals, including tigers, lemurs and dingoes, said UK study lead author Elizabeth Clare, an assistant professor at York University in Canada and a former senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, where she undertook the work.
The Copenhagen team was able to detect 49 vertebrate species, including 30 mammals.
The Copenhagen team used a fan to draw in air from the zoo and its surroundings, which may contain genetic material from breath, saliva or fur -- or anything small enough to become airborne and float in the air. The air was then filtered, and DNA was extracted and copied before being sequenced. Once processed, the DNA sequences were compared to a reference database to identify the animal species.
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Wear a mask. Everyone knows it will protect you. The CDC say’s it is so.
I can just see the authoritarian types rubbing their hands in glee!
successful in identifying the animals lurking nearby
= = =
Identify by species, or by the individual?
Better get some farts in a jar.
Spread them around.
Decoy farts? :)
I’ve been breathing too much RINO DNA for too long. I truly hope they become extinct.
"endangered animals"
Surrrrrrre.
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Endangered Animals?
Endangered Animals like conservatives and lovers of the U.S. Constitution???
It’s called a bloodhound.
It will be used to track endangered Republicans.
You can run but you can’t hide.
Nothing like more tech for the antichrist to use in enslaving all humanity.
Reminds me of the robot dog in the book “Fahrenheit 451” that tracked down people and gave them lethal injections on live-streamed TV.
That’s cool...
I had the same thought about that robot dog as well. Need some countermeasures like the protagonist Mpntagused to evade the dog (Mechanical Hound).
Copenhagen team—funded by a lab in Wuhan.
Sent it to my kids...they’re in their 50’s. Good grief am I old or what...78 in a few days.
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