by Richard Stone
Artist Karina Åberg swabs a 14th century da Vinci family letter from the State Archive in Prato for biological clues, following research initiated by Rossella Lorenzi. Credit: Paola Agazzi / Archivio di Stato di Prato / Italian Ministry of Culture
Science magazine has published a survey of the Leonardo Da Vinci DNA Project, The Real Da Vinci Code, occasioned by the posting to BioRxiv of our paper, Biological signatures of history: Examination of composite biomes and Y chromosome analysis from da Vinci-associated cultural artifacts.