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Christina Warinner: Rastreando doenças ancestrais utilizando... placa dental

Filmed Feb 2012 • Posted Apr 2012TED2012
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Imagine o que poderíamos aprender sobre doenças ao estudar a história da doença humana, desde hominídeos ancestrais até o presente. Mas como? Christina Warinner, parceira do TED, é uma geneticista arqueológica, e ela encontrou uma nova ferramenta espetacular -- o DNA microbial em placa dental fossilizada.

Christina Warinner is a researcher at the University of Zurich, where she studies how humans have co-evolved with environments, diets and disease. Full bio »

Translated into Portuguese by Alessandra Areias
Reviewed by Isabel Villan
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