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Ancient Egyptian mummies are known to preserve many details of the once-living: facial features, signs of illness, and even tattoos. But not, it seemed, DNA. After repeated failure in extracting the molecule, many scientists had been convinced that the hot desert climate and the chemicals used in the process of mummification would have destroyed any remnant of genetic material long ago. Now a team of ancient DNA specialists has successfully sequenced genomes from 90 ancient Egyptian mummies. The study, led by Johannes Krause, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, reportedly used next-generation sequencing methods to read stretches of any DNA present in a sample and successfully fished out those that resembled human DNA.http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/0...http://www.wochit.comThis video was produced by YT Wochit News using http://wochit.com

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Johannes Krause Tutankhamun Polymerase chain reaction Scientist Nuclear gene Ancient DNA Genome Ancient Egypt DNA Mummy Iosif Lazaridis Nature Communications Dna Biotechnology Genetic Mapping Geneticist Iosif Lazaridis Nile Cairo Science of Human History