Today’s Solutions: October 10, 2024

Portrait of Sitting Bull on Smithsonian Institute backdrop

Novel DNA extraction method confirms identity of Sitting Bull’s great-grandson

Researchers from the Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the successful extraction of usable DNA from a long-dead person after 14 years of effort. The method, developed by a team of scientists led by Eske Willerslev, was recently used to confirm the Read More...