Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil

Thursday, September 10, 2020 - 12:00 in Biology & Nature

Researchers have developed a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants -- many of them long extinct -- from less than a gram of sediment.

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