DNA decay rate makes ‘Jurassic Park’ impossible
Don’t worry, we won’t have to worry about this scenario in the future.
(Credit: Universal Pictures )
Countless childhood dreams dissolved today upon the news that the calculated half-life of DNA figures out to around 521 years, all but invalidating the chances of a real-life “Jurassic Park.”
The DNA fact-finding project involved a team of palaeogeneticists testing 158 leg bones belonging to three species of extinct giant moa birds ranging from 600 to 8,000 years old.
After running a series of comparisons between the age of the various bones and DNA degradation within each specimen, the…
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