On the trail of ancient killers

A Gibbons - 2013 - science.sciencemag.org
The newly unveiled genome of a medieval strain of the mycobacterium that causes leprosy
is a technical triumph borne of next-generation sequencing machines and clever new
techniques to extract target DNA from a soup of ancient molecules. Awash in data, several
labs are racing neck-and-neck to cull DNA from a Most Wanted list of other legendary killers:
tuberculosis, plague, cholera, Leishmania, the potato blight, and AIDS. They gather traces of
these culprits from ancient teeth, bones, hair, feces, and—in the case of potato blight—from …
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