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. 2006 Nov;7(11):1075-9.
doi: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400844.

Saving a fragile legacy. Biotechnology and microbiology are increasingly used to preserve and restore the world's cultural heritage

Andrea Rinaldi

Saving a fragile legacy. Biotechnology and microbiology are increasingly used to preserve and restore the world's cultural heritage

Andrea Rinaldi. EMBO Rep. 2006 Nov.
No abstract available

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White aurochs, Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux (Montignac, France). Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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The South Tower of Structure I at the Mayan archaeological site at Xpujil in Yucatán, Mexico. Photograph by Holger Breithaupt.
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Entrance to Structure I at the Mayan archaeological site at Xpujil in Yucatán, Mexico. Photograph by Holger Breithaupt.
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Futuro, designed in 1965 by Matti Suuronen, showing evidence of microbial growth. Images courtesy of Tim Bechthold (Museum Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, Germany) and Francesca Cappitelli (Cappitelli et al, 2006b). Reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
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The Vasa, as it appears today after conservation treatment in the Vasa Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. By March 2005, more than 2,000 areas of acidified wood and visible precipitates of salts had been identified on the warship. Photograph by Hans Hammarskiöld/Vasa Museum.
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The hull of the Mary Rose, now at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard (UK), being sprayed with polyethylene glycol solution. Photograph by Farideh Jalilehvand, University of Calgary, Canada.
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