Ancient eggshell protein breaks through the DNA time barrier

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 09:31 in Biology & Nature

Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield, York and Copenhagen have identified fossil proteins in a 3.8 million year-old ostrich eggshell, suggesting that proteins could provide valuable new insights into the evolutionary tree, much further back in time than was previously thought.

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