A new discovery that is quite unique, but useful. An invention designed research team from the University of Copenhagen was able to detect a person's age from his eyes.
Niels Lynnerup, an expert in science from the University of Copenhagen and chairman of the research team, explained in addition to the teeth, the eyes can be a pointer how old a person.
The new techniques introduced Lynnerup it is the use of radiocarbon data to measure the lens proteins that are similar crystals and are always grown since humans are born until the end of his life.
The trial has been conducted on a 13-year-old boy, using isotopic analysis of carbon called carbon 14 is mounted on the side of the eye's crystalline.
Then the protein was taken from the eyes re-tested in the laboratory and eventually led to the protein data that could refer to a person's age.
The technique was actually taken from an analysis of the increase in atmospheric carbon 14 in the 1950s until a few years after the United States and the Soviet Union started testing a nuclear bomb.
Carbon is returned to shrink after a protest reaction from the world community. Carbon 14 is not used then attempted to examine a person's age by analyzing the eye lens proteins.
The coroner will also been helped by a new way of identification other than teeth. The discovery that allows scientists to record the protein of any person from birth until death.
Protein data bank is also useful for researching various studies concerning human health.
"Actually, not only the eye's lens that can be identified. Identification of proteins that can help detect cancer or other diseases," said Lynnerup.
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