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200 year old TB DNA offers research leads

By Helen Clegg on July 31, 2013 in News

British scientists from the University of Warwick have recovered tuberculosis DNA from the lung tissue of a 200 year-old Hungarian mummy. The strain of TB found in the mummy offers scientists the opportunity to study TB bacteria from a time before antibiotics.

Read the full story in the Daily Mail.


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