Defossilization

David Jones

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6695, 727-727

Abstract: Fossils are produced when organic remains are replaced by a mineral. Daedalus wants to make these once-living creatures come back to life by doing just the opposite. His plan is to soak fossils in water saturated with a range of biological substances such as fats, sugars, proteins and DNA. The idea is that the mineral will dissolve very slowly in the water, to be replaced by the appropriate biological molecules.

Date: 1998
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