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New Zealand fish & chips hold human DNA clues


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New Zealand fish and chips hold human DNA clues

Before you pop that piece of battered fish in your mouth, be aware it might just hold the key to understanding the origins of a form of DNA memory critical to human development. The unusual looking elephant shark (Callorhinchus milii), commonly used in fish and chip shops throughout New Zealand, is only a very distant relative of humans. But University of Otago geneticists have discovered it has a remarkably similar DNA memory system to our own.

Read more: Phys.org

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