Proteomics of Medieval Manuscripts
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/do-proteins-hold-the-key-to-the-past Some excerpts: "In recent years, proteomic studies of art works and archeological remains have yielded biological information of startling clarity, revealing gossamer-thin layers of fish glue on seventeenth-centu...
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Archivalia
2018
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| Online Access: | http://archivalia.hypotheses.org/92900 |
| Summary: | https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/do-proteins-hold-the-key-to-the-past Some excerpts: "In recent years, proteomic studies of art works and archeological remains have yielded biological information of startling clarity, revealing gossamer-thin layers of fish glue on seventeenth-century religious sculptures and identifying children’s milk teeth from pits of previously unrecognizable Neolithic bones. In 2008, researchers were able to sequence the proteins of a harbor seal that remain. |
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