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Wednesday, November 15 2006 @ 12:42 PM Central Standard Time
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 Scientists have partly and successfully restructured the genome of an ancient Neanderthal man who existed 38,000 years ago.
Researchers have used progressive DNA sequencing techniques to recover substance from Neanderthal femur found in the Vindija Cave, Croatia. The breakthrough in genetic sequencing would help uncover the ancient mysteries enfolding the human evolutionary kin- the Neanderthals. Researchers have successfully sequenced mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from 12 Neanderthals.
The extracted genetic information from a Neanderthal’s thigh bone has allowed scientists to recognize over a million building blocks of DNA. Co-author Edward Rubin from the Joint Genome Institute located at Walnut Creek California said, "The sequence data will serve as a DNA time machine.”
“That will tell us about aspects of Neanderthal biology that we can never get from their bones and associated artifacts."
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