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Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing

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Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing

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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

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Armed with plastic boxes, a group of scientists from the University of Copenhagen sought to "vacuum" animal DNA from the air.

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It sounds like it’s literally just catching hairs and things like that, though. We already knew we leave DNA samples everywhere, so that’s not more scary than DNA analysis already was.

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