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Source: BBC Radio 4 "The Material World"
Roundup
5-15-08

Our skeletons tell story of TB [audio 11min @14:50]

Archaeologists and geneticists are joining forces to try to discover how diseases evolve. By extracting ancient human DNA they are looking to see how tuberculosis developed over the centuries and reveal its ultimate origins. Presenter Quentin Cooper is joined by Professor Charlotte Roberts, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham; and Professor Terry Brown, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "The Material World"