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DNA of Long-Dead Cows Read from Pages of Medieval Books| New Scientist

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Shawn Mihalik

DNA of Long-Dead Cows Read from Pages of Medieval Books| New Scientist

Seven years ago, Matthew Collins at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and his colleagues had the idea of applying state-of-the-art genetic analysis techniques to the animal skin pages of medieval documents.

“We realised all these dead cows have a date written on them,” he says. “We thought, ‘This is crazy, why aren’t we exploiting this’.”

Wow.

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