After this success, the researchers sampled two grams of
bone powder from a hominin thigh bone from the cave.
The finely applied bone dust conveys an impression of fragile lightness that is contrasted by the work's extensiveness and sheer mass: over 250 kg
of bone powder spread over nearly 300 sqm of space.
When Wang and I visited a Beijing shop, I did not find any tiger
bone powder for sale (not even the «tiger» powder containing leopard bones that began to be sold after the Chinese government banned the sale of the striped predator's skeletal remains).
(The tiger additive was intended to replicate a now banned traditional Chinese medicine treatment for rheumatism of tiger
bone powder in wine; that concoction also is hawked online and in newspaper ads as a cure for all ailments.)
A team led by geneticist Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom isolated DNA from
bone powder taken from the infant's skull.
They extracted the clumps by
soaking bone powder in a solution containing sodium hypochlorite, the active agent in chlorine bleaches and disinfectants.
Surgeons often use bone chips or
bone powder as a sort of putty during bone reconstruction to help areas of bone re-grow.
Ground Beef, Beef Hearts, Broccoli, Beef Kidney, Carrots, Beef Liver, Apples, Raw Goat's Milk,
Beef Bone Powder, Flax Seed, Dried Kelp, Cod Liver Oil, Coconut Oil, Inulin, Sesame Seeds, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols, Eggshell Membrane, Dicalcium Phosphate
Jennifer Trask, Marion's Morifolium Neckpiece, 2011, sewing needles, antler, 23.5 k gold leaf, found 18th century frame fragments, various teeth and bones, cast resin
with bone powder.
Some are animals or fantastical creatures, like this bear made from clay and
bone powder from Dolní Věstonice.
To collect a few milligrams of
his bone powder for analysis, scientists in the Natural History Museum's ancient DNA lab drilled a tiny, 2 mm wide hole into the ancient skull.
Pork, Pork Heart, Broccoli, Alfalfa, Carrots, Pork Liver, Apples, Romaine Lettuce,
Bone Powder, Raw Goat Milk, Flaxseed, Cod Liver Oil, Taurine, Inulin, Organic Coconut Oil, Sesame Seeds, Chia Seeds, Sea Salt, Mixed Tocopherols, Dicalcium Phosphate, Eggshell Membrane