First historic figure whose genome gets sequenced: Richard III

Published February 13, 2014 5:00am ET



The researchers who discovered the remains of Richard III last year have announced they will sequence the royal’s genome and make it available to both scientists and the general public, Smithsonian magazine reports.

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