Sentences with phrase «from fragments of bone»

Pääbo created it by sequencing DNA from fragments of bone (most of it from the Vindija cave in Croatia) to get 3 billion Neanderthal base pairs essentially uncontaminated by human DNA or by microbes.

But now that increasingly powerful genomic technology can definitively identify a species from a fragment of bone or uncover Neanderthal genes embedded in the DNA of modern humans, there is less room for debate.

Not exact matches

Creating a skull or entire skeleton from a 3 inch fragment of bone does not make a «record».

However, bone fragments in sausage, metal parts from broken - off blades or plastic pieces of packaging and transport cases are a worse - case scenario for any food producer.

In eight years, from 17 ancient wrecks, McKee has brought up 40 tons: a 17 - foot, 2 1/2 - ton anchor; 18 cannons; over 400 cannonballs; flintlocks, pistols and swords; gold doubloons; silver pieces - of - eight; wine - jug, rum - bottle and china - plate fragments; tackle blocks; pewter plates and cups; belt and shoe buckles and worn boot heels; cutlery, inkwells, figurines and religious medals; copper and silver ingots; a ton of lead; gold rings, earrings and brooches; human teeth, beef bones and elephant tusks.

Meet «white slime,» a slurry of chicken part leftovers (bone marrow, bone fragments, cartilege, and even meat) thought to be the cause of the outbreak and imported from Brazil, no less.

The site provides new information about the region's sauropods, which were previously known only from fragments of a tail bone, a leg bone, and a few bits of teeth — scraps so small that researchers couldn't assign the fossils to a particular species or even estimate its size.

Researchers in Russia have unearthed the exquisitely - preserved bodies of two cave lion cubs, an extinct species previously known only from bones, carcass fragments, and prehistoric art, The Siberian Times reports.

Bone fragments from a 210 - million year - old, land - dwelling reptile from New Mexico suggest that the earliest turtles didn't have much of a shell at all.

From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form of benign bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.

«The problem is that damage from bullets and bone fragments deep inside a junctional wound is not always visible from outside the body, and a regular clotting agent may not be able to reach the origin of the bleeding,» said Sydney Rooney, leader of the biomedical engineering student team that sought to solve this problem.

The bone fragment, which comes from the famous archaeological cave site of Krapina, contains by far the earliest bone tumor ever identified in the archaeological record.

Using a biomolecular technique developed at York's BioArCh laboratory, the research team studied bone / antler objects and fragments of manufacturing waste from the archaeological remains of Ribe's old marketplace.

She and colleagues investigated samples such as a scrap of skin from the hand or paw of a «Yeti» — part of a monastic relic — and a fragment of femur bone from a decayed «Yeti» found in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau.

A new high - coverage DNA sequencing method reconstructs the full genome of Denisovans — relatives to both Neandertals and humans — from genetic fragments in a single finger bone

Meanwhile humans around the globe have bones just as small or smaller than these fragments from Palau, says William L. Jungers of Stony Brook University, who has been studying the postcranial skeleton of LB1.

Dr Nick Longrich, from the Milner Centre for Evolution based in the University of Bath's Department of Biology & Biochemistry, studied one of these rare fossils, a fragment of a jaw bone kept in the Peabody Museum at Yale University.

Charles Cohen, the chairman of the company, explains that the compound is being tested against traditional grafts, in which surgeons bridge non-union fractures with fragments of bone taken from the patient's hip.

But there are no other artefacts and very few signs of domestic activity in the chamber beyond the presence of a charred bone fragment possibly from a bear or large herbivore.

Analysis of short DNA fragments from a pair of samples collected in India and Bhutan matched that of an ancient polar bear bone.

Those two lines of evidences led the researchers to conclude that at least some of the bone fragments likely came from the skull of a Neandertal infant.

There, the bone fragments of large salmon, migrating from marine water to their freshwater spawning places, were found in the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological layers, dated to around 42 to 48,000 years ago, and probably deposited by Neandertals.

The data generated from new and innovative methods, including chemical analyses and the study of microscopic bone fragments, suggest that dinosaur bones were introduced to the deposit after death.

More than 1,550 bones and bone fragments of H. naledi have been recovered from a cave in South Africa, the single - largest fossil hominin find made yet in Africa.

A review of the finds from the Troisième caverne of Goyet combined results from various disciplines; it identified 99 previously uncertain bone fragments as Neanderthal bones.

The largest bone of the bunch was an 81 - centimeter - long fragment of humerus, which in humans stretches from shoulder to elbow.

Until now, the only evidence that sauropods lived in Scotland came from a small number of bone and teeth fragments.

Another larger fragment is composed of spongy bone originating from the end of a large animal's limb.

As they analyzed a pair of 66 - to 100 - million - year - old plesiosaur skeletons found near Hokkaido, Japan, the researchers realized the fossilized bones of the toothy, quad - flippered marine reptiles * were surrounded by fossilized shell fragments from provannids, a type of tiny snail.

She sat at a triage table at the head of the mortuary assembly line, sifting human bone fragments from building materials and animal remains, and separating unrelated parts.

By sequencing a remarkably complete genome from a 50,000 - year - old bone fragment of a female Neandertal found in Vindija Cave in Croatia, researchers report a new trove of gene variants that living people outside of Africa obtained from Neandertals.

The scientists analyzed fragments of collagen — a structural protein found in all animal bones — recovered from 48 fossils of South American ungulate mammals Toxodon platensis and Macrauchenia patachonica.

We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»

Shaw and colleagues from the British Museum, University College London, University of Manchester and the University of Wales studied stone tools and bone fragments found in layers of sediment dating back to more than 240,000 years ago until after 40,000 years ago - when Neanderthals went extinct.

The modern human ancestor who contributed genes to this particular Neanderthal individual — called the «Altai Neanderthal,» and known from a tiny toe bone fragment — must have migrated out of Africa long before the migration that led Africans into Europe and Asia 60,000 years ago, the scientists say.

To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.

Kahlke comments as follows: «Among others, this bone fragment is presented as part of the archeological study refuted by us — and it was demonstrably stolen from our excavation in 2009.»

This fragment of rib bone is the only known piece of small, portable Ice Age art showing an animal from Britain and tells us about the movement of people, the animals they hunted and how these people saw the world.

Treatments range from medical treatments (I will outline these below since they are similar for all cases of elbow dysplasia) to removing the fragment (s) and cleaning up the adjacent bone, through to procedures that realign the elbow joint to decrease strain / pressure on the abnormal medial compartment of the joint (with FCPS the medial compartment of the joint collapse resulting in further strain pressure and pain in the elbow).

Disproportionate bone growth stemming from genetic aberrations common to large breed dogs causes malformation of the joint and / or loose bone fragments whereby inflammation occurs and chronic arthritis develops.

During surgery, Dr. Coudrai removed the fractured pieces of bone, tissue, and nasal fragments from Einstein's bite wound.

Kepes utilised a wide spectrum of imagery and techniques in his work, including but not limited to: geometric studies of prisms and cones; the refractive properties of mirrors and lenses; mechanical forms including propellers and gears; domestic objects such as fabric, sieves and string and items drawn from the natural world, which ranged from feathers and bone to close - up fragments of the human body.

The spinal cord could suffer from a laceration if bone fragments penetrate the spine or if it is directly cut of another object such as in a car accident.

If the patient suffers a meningeal tear, has bone fragments protruding from the break or has suffered contamination of the wound, the brain tissue may become infected at put the patient at risk of mental impairment.