Take a look at how researchers are testing a method for finding sailors lost at sea using environmental DNA — genetic material that’s detectable in the environment around a living or deceased organism.
Great Lakes Now contributor Lisa John Rogers reported on the research taking place at Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary near Alpena, Michigan.
“Scientists are able to go to those habitats and capture that genetic material through the soil, water, snow and air, to then kind of trace what living organisms have been there, when were they there,” said Rogers.
The research is primarily aimed at tracking human DNA of sailors who perished when their ships sank in Lake Huron many years ago.
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