A pioneer of molecular paleontology, Svante Paabo has developed and refined the technique of isolating and sequencing the DNA of creatures long extinct. Year after year, he is making discoveries that shed light on our own evolutionary past, and on what it means to be human. The Stockholm-born Paabo, who had once considered becoming an Egyptologist, was a Ph.D. student in molecular genetics at the University of Uppsala, Sweden when he set out to capture a DNA sample from an ancient Egyptian mummy. Extracting coherent DNA from human remains is enormously difficult, as they have usually been contaminated with...
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A pioneer of molecular paleontology, Svante Paabo has developed and refined the technique of isolating and sequencing the DNA of creatures long extinct. Year after year, he is maki…
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Svante Paabo (SD)
A pioneer of molecular paleontology, Svante Paabo has developed and refined the technique of isolating and sequencing the DNA of creatures long extinct. Year after year, he is maki…