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Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/15
By: Chu Tse-wei and Kuan-lin Liu

Taipei, March 15 (CNA) U.S. science magazine Discover has ranked the case of a Taiwanese scientist and his research team who found protein in a 195 million-year-old dinosaur fossil as its number 12 top story of 2017.

The discovery was first published by Nature Communications, a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and Discover’s website, on Jan. 31, 2017.

The story describes how an international team of scientists led by Lee Yao-chang (李耀昌) of Taiwan’s National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center used a new method to find the protein collagen in a fossil that is more than 100 million years older than previous preserved protein findings.    [FULL  STORY]