Our guests are Dr. Svante Pääbo, Director of the Department of Genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and Dr. Thomas Jarvie, Technical Application Manager at 454 Life Sciences

Dr. Svante Pääbo explains how he isolates the ancient DNA of Neanderthals from museum specimens.

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Host: Marc Pelletier

Guests: Dr. Svante Pääbo and Dr. Thomas Jarvie

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And also thanks to the band Gunther from Cyclone Records for the permission to use their song Wrecking Ball as a theme for this episode of FiB!