Penelope Boston (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology), speleologist and geomicrobiologist specialist of extremophile organisms realized sterile sampling of gypsum drillcores by making small boreholes inside large crystals under aseptic conditions.
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No DNA from ancient bacteria could be extracted from the solid inclusions and amplified by PCR.
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