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IMAGE: A new method that allows the almost non-destructive extraction of genetic material from archaeological human remains was developed by an international team of researchers. view more
Credit: Photo: Kiss Pál Museum (Edit Mester and Albert Gy?rfi)
An Austrian-American research team (University of Vienna, Department Evolutionary Anthropology and Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics), in collaboration of Hungarian experts from Eötvös Loránd University, has developed a new method that allows the almost non-destructive extraction of genetic material from archaeological human remains. The method allows anthropologists, archaeologists and archaeogeneticists to avoid the risk of serious damage to artefacts of significant scientific and heritage value, which can then be fully examined in future research.