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Can we use prehistoric DNA?
Can we use prehistoric DNA?
Last Modified: 08 Apr 2008
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Channel 4 News
Fossilised animals found in France can be examined using advanced X-rays. More4's David Fuller investigates the DNA potential.
Hundreds of preserved creatures, trapped for millions of years in amber, have been discovered in France.
Long-standing DNA dreams
The fossilised animals can be studied using advanced X-rays and this will shed extraordinary light on the mid-Cretaceous period.
But could it also revive long-standing dreams of using DNA from prehistoric life?
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