Wednesday, May 15, 2013

HUNGARIAN MUMMIES DNA MAY SOLVE RIDDLE OF TB

EXCERPT FROM ABC RADIO SCIENCE SHOW ABC RADIO: Ancient DNA specialist, Mark Spigelman, biopsied 176 Hungarian mummies  link here!

EXCERPT: "What I did note was that every one of them was in a coffin made of pine and lying on a bed of pine shavings, and there is a turpinoid type material in the pine which can act as an antibacterial...This is a wonderful group, totally untried, no antibiotics, not AIDS, no nothing - the only significant reason why one member gets TB and the other one doesn't, it's strongly possible that it's due to genetic differences.