Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed


	Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c340012d-e2ca-4489-8600-4f3dc29410ac/24B4F585-B082-402A-BF29-9CD97A612DE2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp" href="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp" style="font-size: 11px;">www.geneticarchaeology.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp"><H1>Researchers Resurrect Extinct Judean Date Palm Tree from 2,000-Year-Old Seed (6/13/2008)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp"><B>In the foreboding, cliff-side fortress of Masada some 2,000 years ago, Jewish Zealots savored sweet dates from Judean palm trees, gazed at the Dead Sea, and perhaps spit seeds onto the palace floor.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.geneticarchaeology.com/img/C455C345-FB32-41FC-BDDE-9C869F95DF9A" alt="Ancient date seeds from Masada." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp">
Later, Roman forces would storm Masada, triggering mass suicides by the barricaded Zealots. For centuries, the fruit seeds remained buried beneath the fallen citadel, once the luxurious palace of King Herod.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Researchers_Resurrect_Extinct_Judean_Date_Palm_Tree_from_2000-Year-Old_Seed.asp">
Now researchers led by Dr. Sarah Sallon of Jerusalem's Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center, part of the Hadassah Medical Organization have brought an extinct date palm back to life by resurrecting the oldest seed ever. They call it Methuselah, and they describe their carbon-dating and genetic-analysis efforts in the 13 June 2008 issue of the journal Science.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/24B4F585-B082-402A-BF29-9CD97A612DE2/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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