{"id":108204,"date":"2020-06-05T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-unravel-genetic-mysteries-of-dead-sea-scrolls"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:04:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:04:29","slug":"scientists-unravel-genetic-mysteries-of-dead-sea-scrolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/scientists-unravel-genetic-mysteries-of-dead-sea-scrolls","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unravel Genetic Mysteries of Dead Sea Scrolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-unravel-genetic-mysteries-of-dead-sea-scrolls.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls had an incomparable impact on the historical understanding of Judaism and Christianity. \u2018Piecing together\u2019 scroll fragments is like solving jigsaw puzzles with an unknown number of missing parts. Because most of the 2,000-year-old scrolls were written on processed animal skin, an international team of researchers used DNA sequencing to \u2018fingerprint\u2019 fragments based on their genetic signature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls had an incomparable impact on the historical understanding of Judaism and Christianity. \u2018Piecing together\u2019 scroll fragments is like solving jigsaw puzzles with an unknown number of missing parts. Because most of the 2,000-year-old scrolls were written on processed animal skin, an international team of researchers used DNA sequencing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}