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by takee 3782 days ago
How long does it take for researchers to extract DNA samples and compare it against the current population's samples? Maybe I'm being naive here but shouldn't that be a quick enough analysis? This research is going to help answer some very interesting questions.
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raddad 3782 days ago
I just heard a program on Public Radio yesterday about the possibility of using a USB DNA sequencer to map the Zika virus like they had Ebola. They said they could get the results in a day.

I can't find the PR source but here it is on The Guardian http://bit.ly/1PfrACL

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whelp 3782 days ago
> answer some very interesting questions.

But for political reason no one wants to answer that question. I mean as an example ... the current Egyptian population has really nothing to do with the ancient Egypt that built the pyramids.

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