The fifth was in the polymerase 2, a protein that helps the virus replicate its genetic material.

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Scientists have for the first time created laser light using living biological material: a single human cell and some jellyfish protein.

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By bombarding the fossils with an infrared synchrotron beam a noninvasive way of analyzing a material's internal chemistry the scientists said they detected molecular traces of an organic protein inside the mineralized bones.

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Here is the recipe he and his team discovered: organic material, like grass clippings or agricultural waste, is mixed with a stabilizing peptide powder and from that protein is extracted from the materials, stabilized.

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