Scientists in Germany and the US are beginning a groundbreaking study to sequence the DNA of Neandertal fossils.
The project is to be jointly directed by Svante Paabo, director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
and Dr. Michael Eghom, Vice-President of Molecular Biology for 454 Life Sciences. ...> Full Article
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