Word: yoshii
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...after all. In February, the British scientific journal Nature published an article in which the scientist who did the tests admitted they were inconclusive-and that the remains could have been contaminated with foreign DNA. "The bones are like stiff sponges that can absorb anything," Teikyo University DNA analyst Yoshii Tomio told a Nature interviewer. The technique Yoshii used, known as "nested PCR," also raised doubts: professional forensics labs in the U.S. don't use it because of the high risk of contamination, according to Terry Melton, a DNA expert at Pennsylvania-based Mitotyping Technologies. Yoshii has declined comment...
...promise of a national rejuvenation. And maybe even boost the stock market. An absurd notion, sure, but there hasn't been much of anything to cheer about in Japan for, oh, the better part of a decade. "We've only had bad and bleak news these days," says Kaoru Yoshii, 28, who hurriedly logged on to her mobile-phone Internet service to read about the birth when she noticed a merchant hoisting a national flag outside his shop. "It's good to hear some good news like this...