TY - JOUR
KW - leprosy
KW - History of leprosy
KW - DNA
AU - Gibbons A
AB - The newly unveiled genome of a medieval strain of the mycobacterium that causes leprosy is a technical triumph borne of next-generation sequencing machines and clever new techniques to extract target DNA from a soup of ancient molecules. Awash in data, several labs are racing neck-and-neck to cull DNA from a Most Wanted list of other legendary killers: tuberculosis, plague, cholera, Leishmania, the potato blight, and AIDS. They gather traces of these culprits from ancient teeth, bones, hair, feces, and—in the case of potato blight—from skin and leaves, then unleash the sequencers. The work adds a new dimension to our understanding of historical events, revealing the true nature of the villains responsible for humanity's worst epidemics. 
BT - Science Magazine
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23766308
CN - GIBBONS2013
DO - 10.1126/science.340.6138.1278
IS - 6138 
LA - eng
N2 - The newly unveiled genome of a medieval strain of the mycobacterium that causes leprosy is a technical triumph borne of next-generation sequencing machines and clever new techniques to extract target DNA from a soup of ancient molecules. Awash in data, several labs are racing neck-and-neck to cull DNA from a Most Wanted list of other legendary killers: tuberculosis, plague, cholera, Leishmania, the potato blight, and AIDS. They gather traces of these culprits from ancient teeth, bones, hair, feces, and—in the case of potato blight—from skin and leaves, then unleash the sequencers. The work adds a new dimension to our understanding of historical events, revealing the true nature of the villains responsible for humanity's worst epidemics. 
PY - 2013
SP - 1278
EP - 1282
T2 - Science Magazine
TI - On the trail of ancient killers
VL - 340 
ER -