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originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: Advantage
John Glenn just died, if one of these scientists die does anyone care?
In other words, space is super duper heroic and cool, finding new plants and organisms, not so much.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: sunkuong
Your welcome, I can't imagine the look on the scientist's faces when they read the test results. 14% unknown DNA. Crazy cool.
Dr. Christopher E. Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medical College, along with his colleagues, took DNA samples from turnstiles, handrails, poles, seats and other surfaces in the NYC subway system and tested them for bacterial and human DNA. Over the course of a year-and-a-half, the team performed 1,500 swabs at unique locations throughout the city's five boroughs: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
Later analyses of these DNA samples revealed that almost half of them came from organisms that aren't even cataloged, meaning nobody knows what they are. And a mere 0.2 percent matched the human genome, suggesting that the vast majority of NYC subway germs originate from non-human or otherwise unidentified sources.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: GreyScale
What do you mean by anomalies?