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Researchers can now collect and sequence DNA from the air – Livescience.com
We shed DNA everywhere. That includes the air, according to a new study.
We leave DNA all over the place, including in the air, and for the first time, researchers have collected animal DNA from mere air samples, according to a new study.
The DNA
that living things, human and otherwise, shed into the environment is called environmental DNA (eDNA). Collecting eDNA from water to learn about the species living there has become fairly common, but until now, no one had attempted to collect animal eDNA from the air.
“What we wanted to know was whether we could filter eDNA…
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