Lost biblical plant with medicinal properties resurrected from 1,000-year-old seed.
From CNN: “Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s. The researchers involved in the project say they believe the tree species, which is thought to be extinct today, could have been the source of a healing balm mentioned in the Bible and other ancient texts.”
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I consider this to be extraordinarily important.
