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important reference

Posted by lynnerup on 02 Mar 2008 at 13:55 GMT

for example for brain cell DNA
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0001529#article1.body1.sec3.p2

Please note the following reference also:
Bada JL, Vrolijk CD, Brown S, Druffel ERM, Hedges REM (1987) Bomb radiocarbon in metabolically inert tissues from terrestrial and marine mammals. Geophys Res Lett 14:1065-1067