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Tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque

Christina Warinner · TED

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About

Imagine what we could learn about diseases by studying the history of human disease, from ancient hominids to the present. But how? TED Fellow Christina Warinner is an achaeological geneticist, and she's found a spectacular new tool -- the microbial DNA in fossilized dental plaque.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED2012
Speaker
Christina Warinner
Year
2012
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Medicine and health, Society and politics, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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