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Is it possible to exhume human remains from 300 years ago and sequence their DNA?

Daniel Waxman
in Genetics

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I was thinking about my personal top four smartest people of all time. In chronological order; Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and Albert Einstein. Unfortunately only one of them had children. Would it be possible to exhume the remains of these geniuses and sequence their DNA so that we could clone them?

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