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by BorisVSchmid
3565 days ago
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The average length of intact Y. pestis DNA that researchers are capable of extracting from medieval teeth is something in the order of 55 basepairs. To put that into perspective - Y. pestis' main chromosome is a little over 4 million basepairs. So it is only broken pieces of code that they can recover, not the whole, intact bacterium. No risk here. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7370/full/nature1... |
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