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DNA Can Solve Everything ... Right?

Jun 13, 2007

According to this news story, researchers are turning to DNA testing in the hopes that it will offer clues to what happened in the so-called Lost Colony -- a settlement of people on Roanoke Island who mysteriously disappeared after three years. (Maybe they just got a better offer.)

 

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