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Leonardo da Vinci’s Legacy Won’t Be Found In His DNA
This week researchers from the Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project announced they have made the kind of breakthrough you might expect from a project with that name: They have potentially identified Leonardo da Vinci's DNA. The announcement ran exclusively in Science on Jan. 6 under the (excellent) headline "The Real da Vinci Code" and the researchers have published a preprint, which has yet to be peer-reviewed, about the newly collected DNA. The news,…
An international team of scientists has embarked on a modern-day hunt for the “Leonardo Code.” Using expensive methods, they have discovered traces of DNA in a drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. It is possible that the genetic trace belongs to the Renaissance genius himself. But scientists still have a long and uncertain road ahead of them to unravel this biological puzzle and finally confirm it.
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