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Re:Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) by jacquesm on Saturday December 09, 2017 @06:28PM (#15888793)
DNA has a half life, but the real question here is how being trapped in amber would affect that half life. So there may be more - or less - than one would expect if the DNA would be in some other environment. At a guess the time span involved is long enough that no matter how this would be influenced there still would not be any usable DNA fragments.
Re:Dinosaur tail discovered trapped in amber (2016) by yread on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:11AM (#15890619)
Another question is what sort of artifacts would sequencing material in amber produce. Considering the quality of data from formaldehyde fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) samples I think it would be quite a struggle