Neandertal press kit

[lagarvelho]

As is my usual habit, I dug around the John Hawks Weblog and found this:

http://www.454.com/news-events/press-kit-20060719.asp

It leads you to something called LifeSciences 454(why the 454, I don't know).  This, however, is the team that has been busy extracting Neandertal genes from Neandertal fossils  over the years.  Now they want to sequence a Neandertal *genome*!  Which will be interesting, but. . . .
Anne G

[lagarvelho]

And here's more on the Neandertal sequencing project, this time from the New York Times, again via the John Hawks blog:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/21/science/21neanderthal.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

It has some nice pictures, too!
Anne G

[lagarvelho]

All:

And finally(sorry to make a pest of myself with so many posts), a link to John Hawks's website itself.  And yeah, this is a shameless plug for an excellent blog!

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/hawks/hawks.html

Anne G

[trehinp]

Thanks Anne,

This is of the utmost interest for my own research. I am looking forward to see the result of the 454 Life Sciences project.

Paul Trehin