Kristina Killgrove, an archaeologist at Vanderbilt University has been working with the skeletons of the common people of Rome, extracting their DNA to learn their stories.

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DeFontes said the owner of the tooth had been made an offer from an unnamed European firm that had been interested in extracting DNA from the tooth for cloning but they were refused.

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