Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman

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Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 2, 2012 @04:21AM from the next-on-discovery-cloning-the-iceman dept.

sciencehabit writes "A team of researchers has zoomed in on two spots on the body of the Iceman, a mummified, 5300-year-old hunter found frozen in the Alps in 1991: a shoulder wound found with an embedded arrowhead and a hand lesion resembling a stab wound. The scientists used atomic force microscopy, a visualization method with resolution of less than a nanometer, to scan the wounds for blood residue. They discovered red blood cells — the oldest in the world to be found intact — as well as fibrin, a protein needed for blood to clot. The presence of fibrin indicates that the Iceman, nicknamed Ötzi, didn't die immediately after being wounded."

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Ötzi no bang Utz's wife again! by crazyjj · 2012-05-02 04:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Scan reveal Ötzi asshole who no respected bro?

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1. Re:Ötzi no bang Utz's wife again! by gestalt_n_pepper · 2012-05-02 04:29 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Off our meds today, are we?
  
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2. Re:Ötzi no bang Utz's wife again! by Fned · 2012-05-02 06:04 · Score: 4, Interesting
  
  Yes, it does, really. They researched this. Humans are the only mammal with a glans shaped like ours, and in simulations it proved to be dramatically more effective at removing recently deposited semen than the glansless penii of other primates.
3. Re:Ötzi no bang Utz's wife again! by nedlohs · 2012-05-02 06:09 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Sure it has. And there are lots of parts that we have copies of that are more than a few hundred years old. So how is that relevant in the slightest.
  If you have some strange irrational fear of the bible as a set of documents then we have a bunch of records from China related to marriage significantly older than a few hundred years.
  Confucius talked about it a lot, for example. Or is that all edited by the illuminai in your paranoid world?
Excellent! by DWMorse · 2012-05-02 04:26 · Score: 4, Funny

Now we can clone this caveman creature, on a private island, with a theme park tourist-attraction setting! Spare no expense, of course!

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Re:Don't get all that excited.... by aardwolf64 · 2012-05-02 04:38 · Score: 4, Funny

It's groundbreaking! Scientists have proved that people 5000 years ago had blood! Expect it to be in the newspaper headlines tomorrow morning...
Iceman? by bhcompy · 2012-05-02 04:44 · Score: 3, Funny

Iceman isn't dead. Goose is.
Re:Now you know what to do... by Norwell+Bob · 2012-05-02 04:45 · Score: 4, Funny

Allow me to... [sunglasses]
Spearhead this one.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS LARRY! by bmo · 2012-05-02 04:59 · Score: 4, Funny

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS!
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Re:Don't get all that excited.... by Intrepid+imaginaut · 2012-05-02 05:00 · Score: 4, Insightful

Its a unique glimpse into a long vanished way of life and people, an ancient culture of which very little if anything survives today. Some of us find every little detail to be quite fascinating, and who knows, maybe we'll be able to put a few more pieces together and build a more complete picture of our ancestors.